Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
During the install is it quite safe to allow the windows boot loader to be overwritten with GRUB or LILO?Yes, it is safe. The only time you run into problems is if the boot loader doesn't get installed properly, or if you delete your Linux install without un-installing the boot loader. The un-install puts back the original boot loader.
When I tried Linux a few years ago I had some problems with boot loader and ended having to do fresh install of windows.
Thanks
Rosemary
If you need to replace the Windows boot loader, you do not need to re-install Windows. If you have made a Windows boot disk, just boot from it, and run "fdisk /mbr" and it will re-install the dos boot loader. You can also do it with any bootable DOS disk that has the version of fdisk for that version of DOS, or with a number of other utilities.
From what I have heard, XP has its own boot loader repair utility, but I don't run XP...
Mikkel
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