RE: Does Grub Boot Windows XP on NTFS?

[Darren Gamble]

Good day,

I'm not on the Grub development team, but my machine uses Grub and boots to
both Win2000 (NTFS) and Redhat.  The Redhat installer takes care of the
setup.

So yes, it appears that it does. =)

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Darren Gamble 
Planner, Regional Services 
Shaw Cablesystems GP 
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:20 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Does Grub Boot Windows XP on NTFS?
Importance: High


Hello GRUB team,

I've recently acquired another notebook that, like my previous Compaq
Presario, comes with Windows pre-installed. This time is the XP with NTFS
partition. So I will use Partition Magic to shrink it so that I can have Red
Hat 7.2 installed on it as well. Since BootMagic won't work because it
cannot be installed on a NTFS partition I wonder if I have GRUB installed on
the MBR it would boot Win XP as well.

Previously I've used LILO and I've noticed that if the ext partition is not
on the first part of the HD it won't boot. So, because of that, I've used
partition Magic to move Windows ME to the end of the HD and had Linux on the
first part of the HD. I believe that is not a problem with GRUB, right?

After that, Red Hat released 7.2 which came with GRUB and I've noticed that
it could boot Windows ME as well which LILO didn't.

My question is, since Win XP is quite different from Win ME and that it is
installed on a NTFS partition, can I use GRUB on the MBR so that it could
boot Linux and XP?

Is it possible?

Thank you,

Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes.
The University of Utah.
Linux User #207984