[plug] Dual boot Debian 64 / XP pro on Athlon64

[Bernd Felsche]

Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> writes:
>On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 00:35, Chris Caston wrote:

>> A customer has requested that I quote her on a Athlon 64 machine dual
>> booting between XP professional and Linux.

>> I haven't dual booted (pure Debian all the way) in years so am wondering
>> if it is easy to setup these days with the sarge installer and grub.
>> Anyone tried it recently? What should I look out for?

>> Is there any issues dual booting between Debian for Athlon 64 arch and
>> the 32bit Windows XP pro?

>OK I think I will have to use the sid iso for Athlon 64.

>I'm considering using a MSI:
>SKT754/VK8M800/VGA/AGP/DDR400/L/FW/S/R

What's the actual MSI model number? A number of different chipsets
other than the VK8M800 are typically on a board. Google won't cough
anything definitive with "VK8M800 MSI SKT754"

The model number of the mainboard display during POST/BIOS

>Any ideas what the board is like for Linux support or if the installer
>should support installing to the SATA drive with its SATA chipset?

Depends on how the kernel's been built and which chipset.
SuSE 9.2 handles SATA pretty well on a number of chipsets.
No reason why other distros shouldn't support the same.

>Otherwise I may just put in a PATA drive to install Linux to.

>Is it possible to configure GRUB these days to boot into XP from the
>menu?

I hope so. Either that or I've been hallucinating for a few months.
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