< snip > > You don't write to the MBR like you would a partition, this is taken > care of by the bootloader install program. If you were installing > Windows to the same drive as Ubuntu you'd hit problems because Windows > would rewrite the MBR with its own simpleton loader instead of Grub. > When you boot from a hard drive, your BIOS tries to execute whatever > lies in the MBR. If there's no bootloader the BIOS tries to execute > the very first thing on the 'active' or 'boot' partition.
Thank you very much indeed, that helps me to understand a little more. So, I assume, that if Windows is installed first followed by Ubuntu then the MBR created by Windows would be overwritten by the MBR from Ubuntu. Norman -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
