Adding Windows 2000 into a dual-boot after the fact?

[Jeff Vian]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

>On Saturday 31 January 2004 00:25, Jeff Vian wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>this can hapen if you install the linux boot loader on the MBR then
>>install windows.
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>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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yes, that works.  

BUT you must be careful to do the save before you load windows, AND must 
have a boot floppy or a bootable CD sucy as knoppix or the install CD 
with rescue mode so you can get back to the location you saved it and do 
the restore.



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