> Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't know of any benefit of using mbr vs installing GRUB in > > your MBR. > > The installation program of a certain non-free OS overwrites the > MBR, so recovery is easier if GRUB isn't there.
It is easy to install GRUB in both a partition's boot record and in the MBR. Then you can put a install= command in a menu item, so you can boot GRUB from the partition and quickly reinstall it in the MBR. e.g. if GRUB is installed in the first partition, use: title=Reinstall GRUB in MBR install=(hd0,0)+1 (hd0) (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 p in /boot/grub/menu.lst. If you use some other frob to boot from the first partition's boot record, or you boot from a GRUB floppy, then this gives you an easy recovery procedure after Windows clobbers your MBR.
