RE: Does Grub Boot Windows XP on NTFS?

[Shaya Potter]

what's your menu.lst!

On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 16:10, Darren Gamble wrote:
> 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. =)
> 
> ============================ 
> Darren Gamble 
> Planner, Regional Services 
> Shaw Cablesystems GP 
> 630 - 3rd Avenue SW 
> Calgary, Alberta, Canada 
> T2P 4L4 
> (403) 781-4948 
> 
> 
> -----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
> 
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