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From: jasee on 20 Jan 2008 04:52
Can't seem to find the answer to this, so its probably staring me in the
face <g>: can either lilo or grub recognize an NTFS formatted partition for
the purpose of starting a windows operating system, or does it have to be
FAT32 or even Fat16?


From: Ian Rawlings on 20 Jan 2008 05:17
On 2008-01-20, jasee <jasee(a)btinternet.com> wrote:

> Can't seem to find the answer to this, so its probably staring me in the
> face <g>: can either lilo or grub recognize an NTFS formatted partition for
> the purpose of starting a windows operating system, or does it have to be
> FAT32 or even Fat16?

Yes it can, just have a look for "dual boot howto" on google and
you'll find a selection, one of which is bound to have instructions on
exactly what you want to do, unless you're trying to do something
unnatural..

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From: Neil Ellwood on 20 Jan 2008 05:20
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:52:03 +0000, jasee wrote:

> Can't seem to find the answer to this, so its probably staring me in the
> face <g>: can either lilo or grub recognize an NTFS formatted partition
> for the purpose of starting a windows operating system, or does it have
> to be FAT32 or even Fat16?

They both can.

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From: Ian Rawlings on 20 Jan 2008 06:01
On 2008-01-20, Ian Rawlings <news06(a)tarcus.org.uk> wrote:

> Yes it can,

By which I mean they can use NTFS, sorry for the ambiguity ;-)

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From: jasee on 20 Jan 2008 06:29
Neil Ellwood wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:52:03 +0000, jasee wrote:
>
>> Can't seem to find the answer to this, so its probably staring me in
>> the face <g>: can either lilo or grub recognize an NTFS formatted
>> partition for the purpose of starting a windows operating system, or
>> does it have to be FAT32 or even Fat16?
>
> They both can.

THanks to you and Ian, very quick!, just in time!


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