on Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:03:02PM -0700, Troy Arnold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:47:35PM -0700, Bob Scofield wrote: > > > > Do people on this list generally feel that you should not install > > GRUB on the Windows MBR?
Hell, I'd install it on legacy MS Windows ;-)
Generally: I make GRUB my bootloader and chainload for other OSs if
absolutely necessary.
> My experience is that Linux installs (using grub or lilo) usually do a
> fine job of detecting other bootable OS's and adding boot menu entries
> for them. Users just need to verify that these entries have indeed
> been added and if not add them (which is pretty easy).
>
> BTW, even completely blowing away the MBR won't actually damage OS
> installs... You just won't be able to boot them until the boot loader
> knows about them.
# aptitude install ms-sys
Package: ms-sys
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 72
Maintainer: Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.1.3-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
Filename: pool/main/m/ms-sys/ms-sys_1.1.3-1_i386.deb
Size: 20534
MD5sum: 8ab3cba14281bc807d16e773ff913e69
Description: Write a Microsoft compatible boot record
The program does the same as Microsoft's "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or
"sys d:" to a floppy or FAT32 partition, except that it does not copy
any system files (only the boot record is written).
.
Homepage: http://ms-sys.sourceforge.net/
/me *hugs* Debian.
Peace.
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