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A dual-boot OLPC XO with Linux and Windows XP?

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:50:03 GMT
News this morning that the OLPC project is working with Microsoft to deliver a dual-boot XO laptop is causing shock waves among many of the OLPC faithful. Nicholas Negroponte was quoted in the ComputerWorld story as saying, "We are working with them very closely to make a dual-boot system so that, like on an Apple, you can boot either one up. The version that's up and running of Windows on the XO is very fast, it's very, very successful. We're working very hard to do both."</p>

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GRUB-BIOS-SETUP(3)					     Library Functions Manual						GRUB-BIOS-SETUP(3)

NAME
grub-bios-setup -- Set up images to boot from a device. SYNOPSIS
grub-bios-setup [-a | --allow-floppy] [-b | --boot-image=FILE] [-c | --core-image=FILE] [-d | --directory=DIR] [-f | --force] [-m | --device-map=FILE] [-s | --skip-fs-probe] [-v | --verbose] DEVICE DESCRIPTION
You should not normally run this program directly. Use grub-install instead. OPTIONS
--allow-floppy Make the device also bootable as a floppy. This option is the default for /dev/fdX devices. Some BIOSes will not boot images cre- ated with this option. --boot-image=FILE Use FILE as the boot image. The default value is boot.img. --core-image=FILE Use FILE as ther core image. The default value is core.img. --directory=DIR Use GRUB files in the directory DIR. The default value is /boot/grub. --force Install even if problems are detected. --device-map=FILE Use FILE as the device map. The default value is /boot/grub/device.map . --skip-fs-probe Do not probe DEVICE for filesystems. --verbose Print verbose messages. SEE ALSO
info grub Wed Feb 26 2014 GRUB-BIOS-SETUP(3)