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Dual boot Fedora Core 3 and XP

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by choppit 2 views

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Has anyone successfully dual booted FC3 with XP? I'm contemplating giving it a bash (no pun intended), but I've read nothing but problems with FC1/2 dual boot and the few posts I've found on FC3 have been bad news too.

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by jaqui

I multiboot my system
with far more than 2 os options ( try 6 )
if red hat hasn't stolen the option, use lilo ( it multi boots better than grub )

make sure winders is first primary partition.
and install away.
choose lilo of possible, then you can boot into any os, as lilo will allow for editing to add boot options far easier than grub.
not sure if red hat will set up the windows boot for you.

mandrake, suse, debian, slackware all multiboot nicely.

by choppit

I've dual booted various OSes before, including RH9 with no problems and normally I'd go right ahead. However, I just happened to see a thread on FC2/3 bual boot problems making XP unbootable and I'm trying to establish if the problem exists in FC3. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4896 . Theres loads more threads like this out there.

by jaqui

lilo, multi booting.
( I even put an xp system on, Mandrake 10 )
not one problem booting either.
grub, not used.
every report of problems uses grub.

by choppit

Apparently these issues were resolved in FC2. I now have FC3 installed on my XP box with Grub and no problems. Cheers.

by vance_layne

I have a p4 and I have dualbooted with fc3 with XP without no problems the first time and any consecutive time afterwards. FC1 and Two could be installed with a dual boot...but it took some tweaking. As far as I am concerned, you can dual boot with fc3 as if it were red hat 9 with any windows platform.

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