[plug] dual boot XP dominates

[Chris Caston]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 16:16, Shannon Carver wrote:
> The bonus you've always got with this setup, if your not worried about
> borking your linux installation (which you aren't... Yet!), is that if
> you stuff up your boot sector/MBR you can always just put the XP disc
> in, go to rescue mode and type fixmbr to correct the problem.  Well,
> that'll "correct" the problem by making Windows the bootloader again.
> 
> I've never used Mandriva to test it, but I've installed SuSE and Ubuntu
> on client machines and my laptop, and they're VERY Windows/Dual boot
> happy.  Both, happily install the grub boot loader with the Windows all
> setup and working correctly as it was before.  I can't see any reason
> why Mandriva wouldn't do this as well.
> 
> Shannon

Try kubuntu

ubcd has a mbr utility that I used when I was removing Linux from a dual
boot lappy that I gave away a couple of days ago.

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
> Behalf
> > Of G.Chester
> > Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2006 4:08 PM
> > To: Plug at Plug. Org. Au
> > Subject: [plug] dual boot XP dominates
> > 
> > Trying to bring my son across from the "dark side" with a magazine
> cover
> > disc copy of Mandriva to put on his WinXP system. Since he's a
> complete
> > newbie I thought this would be a good starting distro (no, that's not
> > meant
> > as flame bait).
> > 
> > Everything went swimmingly, with all cutting-edge hardware stuff
> > recognised,
> > etc - and it was so FAST on his new spec PC (mine is steam powered, so
> I'm
> > used to 1 hour-plus installs).  But, then all that came up after the
> > install
> > was XP with no boot loader menu in sight (grub was chosen).
> > 
> > I could give more details about what was done, but in the immediate
> sense
> > I
> > want to know if this a known issue with XP retaining total dominance,
> or
> > whether I was too clever with choices of partitioning and location of
> > /boot
> > and stuff and basically stuffed up the install.  I thought this
> question
> > had
> > been answered so time ago and searched the archives, but nothing
> exactly
> > relevant.  A google-load of page hits talked about editing boot
> loaders
> > and
> > reformatting MBR, but I thought maybe just trying to be less clever
> and
> > let
> > Mandriva sort out partitioning and sectors on his system might be the
> > easier
> > way to go in the short term.
> > 
> > What do you'all think.  Trust in the Mandriva developers and try again
> or
> > get down and dirty with config. files?
> > 
> > Regards, Gavin.
> > 
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