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WTF IS WRONG?!?!?! by finklestein2005-08-04 02:21:51
  Welcome to Linux by evil_andy2005-08-04 02:29:30
    Yeah I've had that experience. by finklestein2005-08-04 02:31:50
      He. Oposite Experience here. ;-) by aix tom2005-08-04 03:22:28
        That won't work. by LionsPhil 2005-08-04 03:30:17
It'll trigger the NTFS bootloader to try to read your Linux partition as NTFS and look for certain system files.

No, XP doesn't auto-'repair' the bootsector. An antivirus tool might, but GRUB/LILO would still work the first time.
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          It works if you rip the linux boot sector by afterburner2005-08-04 03:40:24
            IIRC, that's a different boot.ini syntax, though. (n/t) by LionsPhil2005-08-04 03:41:49
              A bit different, yes, IIRC (too :-P ) (n/t) by afterburner2005-08-04 04:00:39

 

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