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 -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
