Dual boot XP and Centos 5.x using the NTLDR bootloader

 
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Old 12-23-2009
Dual boot XP and Centos 5.x using the NTLDR bootloader

How can one dual boot Windows XP sp2 and Centos 5.x using the NTLDR bootloader? I wanted to install CentOS onto a spare partition on a machine with Windows XP already installed, leaving the MBR as it was and using the NTLDR bootloader.
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Old 12-23-2009
One way is to use Grub4dos. Here is a Dual Booting Fedora (Windows XP already installed, NTLDR method which talks about Fedora but should equally apply to Centos.
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Old 12-26-2009
I would do a grub than NTLDR if i were you.
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