I'm not sure if you want to go there, but it may help. If you have access to the BIOS look for something referring to virus protection / boot sector protection and turn it off.
Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Blackmon Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:58 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Laptop installation question I've already tried that... if I install grub or some other boot manager into the boot partition.. my laptop thinks something is wrong and forces a system restore as soon as I try to boot into windows. Christopher. --- Dave Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The easiest way to handle his is to let grub install > to the boot > partition and let it handle loading windows. Windows > boot loader is a > PITA to get to work right with other OS's. When grub > boots you will have > a few seconds to hit enter to see a selection menu. > From there you can > choose Linux or windows to boot. > > Just google "dual boot (Linux distro you are using) > how to" and you will > get all kinds of step by step guides. > > Dave > > Christopher Blackmon wrote: > > --- "T. Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> You can use the WIndows boot loader to bootstrap > >> into Linux. You need to have > >> grub or LILO or something installed somewhere > other > >> than the master boot > >> record. > >> > >> This HOWTO explains how. I'm using it to dual > boot > >> Win XP and Linux on the > >> machine I'm using right now. :-) > >> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html > >> > >> > > > > > > How do I tell grub to install to the linux > partition > > instead of the boot partition? > > > > thanks, > > cb > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : > http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
