Saving Fedora when installing Windows?

[Timothy Murphy]

Tim wrote:

>> I want to upgrade Windows XP on my laptop to Windows 7,
>> but I'd like to be sure that I can get back to Linux afterwards.
>> (I'm sure Windows installation will over-write the MBR.)

> Some people modify the Windows bootloader, so that *it* can be used to
> boot Linux.  You *can* have the Linux bootloader set up to choose
> between booting Windows and Linux, *and* the Windows bootloader set up
> to choose which to boot.

That's interesting.
I've always regarded the Windows bootloader as a black box,
my occasional journeys into the Windows Registry having proved disastrous.

But I don't see how both can be on offer -
do they use the MBRs of different drives?


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Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland