31 Jan
2004
31 Jan
'04
7:01 a.m.
On Saturday 31 January 2004 00:25, Jeff Vian wrote:
I have heard that Windows will wipe out the boot info for Linux if you install Windows on a box that already has Linux installed.
this can hapen if you install the linux boot loader on the MBR then install windows.
Isn't it easy enough to save the MBR dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr bs=512 count=1 and then re-install it if windows overwrites it: dd if=mbr of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
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