[tlinux-users:08311] Re: dualboot and Express Media Player

Jiri Dvorak wrote:
> Thanks, but I'm not talking about Windows Media Player. The Express
> Media Player
> is a DVD/CD player on some Toshibas (such as the Satellite P100 I have)
> that works without booting into Windows. It is installed on a hidden
> partition on the disk. Instead of booting your notebok, you just put a
> DVD/CD in and press play. As far as I understand it, there's a small
> syslinux
> installation on the hidden partition.
> 
> So upon powerup the computer needs to know if it should boot into a
> normal OS or into the EMP. My question is, if I break this mechanism
> when installing grub for a dualboot system.
> 
> Jiri
> 
> 
All I can tell you is that I didn't break it when I installed Fedora
Core 5 on my A105. I use Grub to boot XP and Linux. Media Player
will boot up instead of the Grub boot loader when using the media
buttons.

Mikkel
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