Re: Restoring Windows Boot Setup

Seeing your note reminded me of something I recently came across on the
'net...

While I'm perfectly happy dual booting my laptop using grub, I do have
to boot to Linux to change any grub settings -- not an issue for me, but
apparently it was to some people...

I found an article on using a Windows native file as the grub.conf file
and while I wouldn't personally use it, it was an interesting read and I
learned a bit about how grub (and boot loaders in general) work.

You can find out more about it at sourceforge, project grub4dos
(includes wingrub).

I'm not sure if this will help you at all, but it's a different
approach.

Richard Wilson
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On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 19:56 -0500, vodhner@cox.net wrote:
> I currently have grub doing my boot-loading, but I'd like to enable the Windows XP boot loader if possible. If not, tough toenails . . .
>
> I am not about to rebuild my seldom-visited Windows environment, but would like to experiment with the MS boot loader setup so that I can advise a friend who wants to dual-boot without taking boot management away from MS. (He has another friend who helps him on the Windows side, and I don't want to rock that boat.)
>
> So, given the XP setup disk, is there a way to restore just the boot setup without endangering my Linux partitions? Then I can set up boot.ini to point to my Centos partition and also to my grub loader for the other handful of boot environments I use.
>
> Thanks,
> Vic
>
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