I own a HP Omnibook which had a similar configuration. Unless you do not have a windows installation cd or your specific laptop recovery cd, you can safely use lilo or grub on the MBR and even delete the Recovery partition, IMHO.
Strat On Apr 1, 2005 3:23 PM, Napoleon Ahiable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So please tell me, i have two partitions on the master disk. the first is an > FAT32 compaq Recovery drive and the second is an NTFS windows drice (c:). > has anyone successfuly installed a dual boot on a similar system overwriting > the windows MBR? > > thnx. > Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am told that such a setup will screw my pc up because of the compaq > > partition on the first harddisk. Apperently manufactures like compaq have > > custom booting sequences and overwriting the main boot record will mess > the > > pc up. That is why i have avoided this method. So until i am absolutly > sure > > that, such a setup will work, i'm avoiding it. Thanks for your help > though. > > Its much appreciated. > > that doesn't make any sense... I've never seen a "custom booting > sequence"... I've dual booted window+arch on around 10-15 machines, > and never, ever had an issue with grub chainloading ntloader... > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > ________________________________ > Yahoo! Messenger > Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > -- Strat _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
