[LUAU] boot loaders and XP

Maddog maddog at heavymetalradio.net
Tue May 24 16:17:54 PDT 2005


I have a laptop booting Fedora, Novell Desktop Linux, Xandros and XP. It all 
works great. Anti-virus only scans what it can see.

Don
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kilauea" <kilauea at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "LUAU" <luau at lists.hosef.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:11 PM
Subject: [LUAU] boot loaders and XP


> Aloha Kakou
>
> I have some questions regarding multi-boot (Linux & XP) systems. If I
> wanted to install Linux on an existing XP machine, would Grub or Lilo
> handle this? I assume that I would need to repartition with Parted or
> add of a second drive. Should I expect problems with boot loaders (Grub
> or Lilo) and virus checkering software?
>
> Mahalo to Wayne for concise answer to previous question!
> Kilauea
>
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