[wplug] LILO/GRUB

[Brian Medley]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:15:35PM -0500, Gonffen wrote:

> I was wondering if it was possible to install Lilo of Grub on a system
> that was currently running WIN XP.  If it is possible where would you
> get Lilo or Grub to install them.  I am wondering this because I think
> the last time I tried installing Linux on the system...(it failed)  I
> think something went wrong with installing Lilo and was trying to find
> out if it was went wrong and if so if there was a way around it.
> Personally I wouldn't mind just leaving the boot loader that comes with
> Windoze in place... but I don't know if or how it would be done.  If
> anyone has any idea on how this would work please reply.  THX.

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/fhassel_grub_nt.html

This link appears to give info on howto use the windows xp boot manager to
boot linux.  You'd have to modify the process a bit for your distro.

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