Re: grub and dos, windows, and linux?

[adrian15]

En/na Felix Miata ha escrit:
> > Hummm...
> > I have not so much experience on installing Windows XP so you might be 
> > right.
>
> Happened lots of times over several years before I figured out what was
> happening by halting Linux installation after baby steps to see at what point
> XP CD would no longer work. When I use IBM Boot Manager as primary boot
> loader and limit Grub to logical partitions, XP has no problem installing to
> sda2 or sda3.

I think that the problem is that Windows XP detects GRUB stage_1.5.
With SGD you can install GRUB without using stage_1.5.

http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/SuperGrubDiskProblems

(Check options found at: Super Grub Disk hangs when embeding stage1_5. )

adrian15
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