On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 October 2004 02:36 am, Eben King wrote:
> >
> > If the Fedora installer asks you, tell it to install _no_ bootloader,
> > otherwise you'll have two config files (one in Fedora and one in Xandros),
> > and the one in Xandros will know of it and XP and so will the one in
> > Fedora.
>
> I don't agree with this. Because having it can help you later when you
> want to look up something.
It would only be accurate if you don't change anything, which for me is
not accurate.
> You will only have one bootloader in the bootsector anyway
> so nothing bad comes out of it.
True, but each OS will rewrite the single bootloader in accordance with
its own config file. After one edit, the files will be out of sync with
each other.
> Again I recommend you stick with grub. Which would require you to
> install Fedora last.
I have no comment on grub, having never used it.
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