[ale] Grub and XP tablet edition

[James P. Kinney III]

I caught a display model on sale of the Compaq TC1000 tablet PC (cool
gizmo!). It, of course, was loaded with XP Tablet edition. I'm not sure
what the difference between the tablet edition and the regular Home
edition is other than the journal and pen tools. I feel better about it
now that I have Cygwin, X and Firefox on that part (ssh to my main
machine for evolution :)

I used a Fedora CD to boot it, loaded up a statically linked ntfsresize
and made room for the Fedora installation. All worked well. I was in and
out of the Linux side with no problems. Grub was set to boot either the
Linux or chainload the XP. 

If I boot into the XP side, the grub interface gets removed from the
next boot! I can get back in with a boot floppy, reload grub and it's
back.

Has M$ done more of the usual "we are a monopoly so we can do what we
want" stuff or is there a way to mark the grub stuff as immutable?

BTW: This model has been phased out most likely due to the pen/stylus.
It uses a AAAA (4 A's) battery. The new model uses a new stylus like the
Wacom tablet style that needs no battery.

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