[CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows

[Phil Schaffner]

Frank.Brodbeck at klingel.de wrote on 09/29/2009 09:12 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with 
> Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? 
> Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this 
> well without me doing some magic, or so?

This should be no problem as long as you take the installer defaults, or 
are at least careful not to let Anaconda use the Windows partition.  A 
GRUB menu entry should automatically be created to allow you to boot the 
Windows partition.  I usually change the label from the default, which 
is something like "Other", to "XP" or "Windows" and edit 
/boot/grub/grub.conf after firstboot to comment "hiddenmenu" and perhaps 
increase the default "timeout".

Phil