[plug] Dual boot

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 15:15:48 +0800, Milan Pospisil <pospim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>            I have got a P3 box with two hard drives and a dual boot
> up system; primary master with Windows XP, secondary master with
> Xandros2.0 and a CD ROM as a sec.slave. The boot manager has been
> placed on MBR of IDE1(hda).
> I would like to replace Xandros with SuSE9.1, but I am not sure what
> to do about the boot loaders. Xandros uses LILO and SuSE uses GRUB, so
> what is likely to happen if I just simply reformat the second hard
> disc and start installing SuSE? Will there be a conflict between the
> boot loaders or will GRUB just take over LILO?

I don't know first hand but from a quick google, seems there was a bug
in parted in 9.1 which killed xp if you resized:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/250104

I believe 9.2 fixed the problem. 

But if you don't resize I think it's ok.
> The Windows OS(together with some other additional software) has been
> installed from network and I can not repeat that process easily, so I
> would like to avoid any mistake beforehand, if possible.
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>                                                   Regards
>                                                                  Milan Pospisil
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Regards,
Russ