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

[Chris Caston]

On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 16:34, Michael Collard wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 11:12 +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 00:35, Chris Caston wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > 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?
> > > 
> > > thanks,
> > > 
> > > Chris Caston
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> The K8M800 seems to be the same as my K8T800 except comes with builtin
> video. The southbridge chip is identical and I can vouch for it's Linux
> support. I'm using the Via SATA thingy now (uses libata) though I've not
> tried the Promise controller on the board. So, you should be able to
> install using SATA just fine, libata is _very_ common.

Thanks very much.

> 
> Cheers
> Michael Collard
> 
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