WinXP overwrites the MBR and will always change the active partition to
the WinXP partition when it boots. What I did was to install grub in the
MBR (has been posted on the list). Windows will then leave the MBR
intact.
Ionut
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:21:52PM -0700, Michael Whang wrote:
> can anyone tell me exactly what happens with the MBR as you install redhat
> with XFS and windows XP? Where are the kernel images...where is /boot? Im
> trying to dual boot xfs and xp. I installed XFS and it was booting fine.
> Then I installed XP, after which the boot loader screen did not come up
> anymore. So i booted off of floppy to change the active partition back to
> the /boot partition, but now all i get is "error loading operating system."
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> Mike
>
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