https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1360
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------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-11 01:03 -------
Like I said, I don't know much about the bootloader. If the info's not in the
MBR, where is it? I'd imagine the MBR points to the info, which is contained
within one of my partitions (the most recently installed I'd imagine). So at
the point it goes to write the MBR, it could mount the other partition and read
it, then *add* the entry, then write it back out and unmount?
And yeah, you've got a point about sucking the data out prior to formatting,
especially when reinstalling to the same partition (so far I haven't done that,
I've just been installing various distributions to separate partitions).
I'm going to reopen this because it's very bad behavior to step on other
installations. Microsoft does that every time; Linux should be better behaved.
(I realize there are other options, but "newbies" (like me) just put it in the
MBR each time.)
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The bootloader installer should preserve old settings rather than blindly
overwriting. I have been testing several Linux distributions recently, and each
time I install one I have to reset the bootloader so it has the others in it.
I realize I could install the bootloader on the partition, or on a floppy, but
when installing to the MBR it should "play nice."
This is Mandrake Linux 9.1 beta 3.
