Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by overgryphon 3429 days ago
XP support ended years ago.
1 comments

What is the Win 10 bootmgr code for XP loading counted as?
Lots of bootloaders (I would say most I have used) allow chainloading another bootloader. That is what is going on here. Pointing bootmgr at another partition and saying "boot that".
Backwards compatibility!