Can Windows 7 RC dual boot?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon May 11 16:27:00 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:19:46PM -0400, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> Both ways are easier in my opinion that the use of a live cd.
>
> Some live CDs actually have in their boot menu option to boot from 
> existing bootable partition, especially rescue live CD such as 
> SystemRescueCD. Wouldn't this be even easier than the methods you 
> mentioned, expecially when the system does not have floppy drive?

Perhaps.  Depends how those live cd's manage to boot your existing system.
They have to somehow detect your kernel and ramdisk and boot parameters
from the existing boot loader on the HD.  It could be done, I have just
never seen one that did it.

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