[LUNI] Dual booting Linux and Win XP

[Larry Garfield]

Jirsa, Jeff wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but M$ was supposedly going to change their 
> boot loader for XP from the MBR to some other format if the processor 
> was a P4 or better, right?  So if I buy a P4 machine today preloaded 
> with XP, can I still install Linux for a dual boot setup?

That's not a P4 thing, that's an Itanium thing.  Intel has switched to 
some new hard disk system that is not backward compatible, but actually 
makes a lot more sense than the MBR/4 partitions/logical drives setup. 
WinXP supports it.  Not sure about the Itanium versions of Linux.  On a 
mainstream P4 it shouldn't make a difference.  Although I recall hearing 
that WinXP doesn't like LILO, so you need GRUB (or maybe it was the 
other way around, something like that).

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