Re: Partitioning for XP & Linux, How Much for What?

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From: chrisv (chrisv_at_nospam.invalid)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 08:42:26 -0500

chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:

>FC2 uses Grub by default, and there was no option to boot Windows. It
>was hosed. It's a documented fact that the 2.6 kernel has this
>problem.

I mis-spoke there. As I recall, Grub gave the option, but Windows
would not boot.

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