Ben Donohue was once rumoured to have said:
> another thing to remember...
>
> in Win NT and Win2K it has a disk administrator.
>
> if you've got a multi-boot setup with linux and win98/nt/2K then
> after the whole thing is setup *don't* use the disk administrator in
> win2k or NT. it WILL trash your linux setup/boot partition etc. not
> sure exactly what it does screw up though. it seems to happen when
> NT wants to "put a signature" on your hard disk. it says it "won't
> harm anything"... sure! whether this is an MS "do this if you
> detect linux" thing or not I don't know. but if you want your system
> trashed - win2k will still work - then try it. even if you have a
> boot manager like GAG in the MBR it leaves this alone. just trashes
> linux.
No, it will not trash your boot setup.
In all the time I've done work with the lot, I've never had disk
adminsitration trash my linux boot partitions, nor have any of my
friends.
The signature is a NT thing, Disk administrator needs it to work
properly. However, I've never had it harm my ext2 partitions, nor my
boot chain. I also have friends who use NT4 and linux dual boot with
the same experiences I've had. [ie: no problems].
I usually install LILO in the MBR or against a primary partition
however, not in the head of an extended partition (which is another
trick some people use).
There are known issues with installing LILO into the MBR [basically,
installing any M$ OS will trash LILO when it updates the MBR], which
is why installing it into the bootsector of a primary partition is a
much better idea.
C.
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