On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:39:20 +1300 Rosemary McGillicuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
During the install is it quite safe to allow the windows boot loader to be overwritten with GRUB or LILO?
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
should not be a problem, if you need to restore it back to win for some reason, something like a "fdisk /mbr" or something like that could be run from a win boot disk which would reload the Master Boot Record or mbr which windows uses. No fresh install of windows would be needed either.
if you don't feel comfortable doing that, you could always save the bootloader to a floppy to avoid overwriting your mbr.
You could add the bootloader to the first sector of your boot partition. In the later versions of Windows (2000/XP) you can get these to boot the linux partition. You have to create a boot file of the linux boot sector which needs to be copied to the windows c:/ area and then it is simply a case of adding the linux details to the c:/boot.ini file.
Hint: Google search "windows 2000 linux boot" has details.
Floppy might be easier in the short term, but I think it is fun in a sad sort of way to see Windows booting my laptop into Linux :-)
-- Thanks,
David
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