Jim Henderson wrote:
> Oh, that's not Grub, that's SYSLINUX - Grub is hard-disk only to the best 
> of my knowledge.

OK. Whatever. Obviously it would have been a PITA to install Linux there 
even if I could get it to boot.

>> Maybe. I don't have any trouble using Windows' bootloader to load GRUB.
>> You just have to set it up right. It's pretty trivial.
> 
> Yup.  But it's not something that I've ever seen automated by the Linux 
> installers. 

No, because they can't write to NTFS partitions. So they can't modify 
the Windows boot menu to accomidate Linux. So they clobber the Windows 
boot sector with the GRUB boot sector.  Which, honestly, wouldn't be all 
*that* awful, if they actually followed the rules for booting,which is 
to say, boot the partition marked "active".  If they did that, you could 
boot back and forth between Windows and Linux without being at the console.


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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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