On Mar 8, 2006, at 3:56 PM, JT Moree wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > >> Even when using Windows, it is not strictly necessary to have the NT >> bootloader in the MBR. You could use GRUB and chainload- however, you >> do need *a* bootloader in the MBR. > > I booted using a rescue CD. it chainloaded to the hard drive and the > error we got was NTLDR missing or something like that. Since we didn't > touch the MBR I assume something was in the boot sector of the first > partition or we would nOT have gotten that error. we would have gotten > something like missing OS.. insert boot media, etc . . right?
If you chainloaded from a boot CD, the MBR was most likely bypassed altogether (depending of course on your configuration). ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
