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How to boot Linux after Windows XP installation Part 2

A couple of weeks ago, John Doe wrote a tutorial about how to make Linux work after you've installed Windows XP, which, of course, has made your Linux primary partition inactive.

Well, let's say you try a different solution, like I did, the one found here (Recovering GRUB after reinstalling Windows section). Everything was fine and dandy, except I couldn't boot Windows after that. What was the problem? I'm a noob, so of course I didn't know. Luckly, there is #ubuntu, with some very helpful people. They helped solve the problem, so I figured I'd share the solution.

Author: Lucas

How to boot Linux after Windows XP installation

GRUB: A common man with zilch knowledge of Linux would think we are talking about food, yet every Linux user knows that GRUB is the GNU Grand Unified Bootloader.

GRUB has earned the name of being one of the greatest loader for booting Linux and practically any other OS.

It is especially useful for multi-boot, partitioned system since GRUB offers high flexibility and convenience for different startup options.

Author: John Doe

Arch Linux 2009.02 ISO release

New ISO features:

- Kernel 2.6.28
- Ext4 support. Installation can be done on a ext4 root partition.
- Rescue and maintenance capabilities for Ext4 root partitions
- Fallback ISOs with the ISOLINUX bootloader, for those that have
trouble booting Grub-based images
- Several bugfixes in the installer
- Brought the included documentation up-to-date
- Inclusion of AIF (Arch Linux Installation Framework), the next
generation installer, currently under development.

Author: CoolGoose

FreeBSD 7.1

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:

  • The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and i386 architectures. The ULE scheduler significantly improves performance on multicore systems for many workloads.
  • Support for using DTrace inside the kernel has been imported from OpenSolaris. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework.
  • A new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client.
  • Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices.
  • The cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command have been added, providing an API for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and assignment.
  • KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3.
  • DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures

Announcement | Release notes | Errata | Download

Author: CoolGoose
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