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Re: XFS/XP Dual Boot?

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Subject: Re: XFS/XP Dual Boot?
From: Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxx>
Date: 11 Jun 2003 11:03:51 -0700
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On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 22:46, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 05:30:40PM -0700, Michael Whang wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone successfully dual booted XFS with windows XP?  Please let
> > me know if so and how.
> 
> I did I a long time ago (no windows now)...  I don't recall any issues
> but you will need to install your boot-loader in the MBR as XFS stores
> the first superblock in the first sector of the partition which some
> bootloaded need to be told about.

If you have a small /boot partition (which is usually recommended) then
you can format it Ext3 (or even Ext2 mounted sync), declare it bootable
and install the bootloader in its superblock.
That's basically what i almost always do.

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Florin Andrei

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