Problems with dual boot and grub

Felix Miata mrmazda at ij.net
Sun Mar 21 04:34:14 UTC 2004


jludwig wrote:
 
> If you want Grub to duel boot it has to be in the MBR (master boot
> record)

No it doesn't. If /boot is a primary on HD0, you can make it the active
partition and grub can start either windoze or Linux from there.

> from the grub boot screen command mode
 
> grub>install (hd0,0)

> I've done this several times and it works. One caveat, I lost my vga
> text capability.
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