[64studio-devel] Will install allow dual boot?

[Stuart]

Daniel,

I also have an HP Pavillion. Its a DV8000 series with the AMD64 Turions.  I 
have been using 64Studio on it now for several months.  I too dual boot to 
openSuse 10.2, Mandriva 2007-64 and 64Studio.  I used to use lilo, but I let 
grub load during the 64Studio install  am I much happier with grub as a 
bootloader.   I haven't had much to contribute since everything works so 
well.

Stuart


On Thursday 11 January 2007 10:00, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> > I bought an HP Pavilion with 64 dual chip today.  Look forward to
> > installing this exciting distro.  Will the installation allow me to
> > preserve my XP partition and dual boot?
>
> Absolutely, you just have to install Windows first, leaving at least 5GB
> free for Linux partitions and swap space (I would personally allow more
> space for files in a /home partition).
>
> During the 64 Studio installation, select 'Manual partitioning' instead
> of 'Erase entire disc', for fairly obvious reasons :-)
>
> The Grub bootloader should make a menu entry for Windows automatically.
>
> If you install Linux first, Windows will simply ignore it during install
> and overwrite your bootloader in the MBR, leaving the Linux system hard
> to boot without a rescue CD or floppy.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
>
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