Marcel Janssen wrote: > On Sunday 05 February 2006 13:32, Jeremy Thompson wrote: > >> The reason, if I remeber correctly, is that windows re-writes the MBR >>(master boot record) so that only windows partitions are recognized. >>Therefore you need to install windows first, then Linux. There might be >>some programs out there that let you do it the other way around, but I >>don't know them. Sorry for the bad news! > > > I think you can just install windows and after that use the Fedora rescue mode > to restore the Grub installation and add Windows to the grub menu. > A similar approach will be needed when you need to reinstall windows, which is > a far as I know sometimes needed :-) > > regards, > Marcel > You may run into problems because Windows may see the drive differently then Linux. Linux can adapt to the way Windows sees the drive, but Windows doesn't. You can end up with partitions that overlap. this is why it is recommended that you create the Windows partitions first, using Windows version of fdisk. >From "man fdisk". If possible, fdisk will obtain the disk geometry automatically. This is not necessarily the physical disk geometry (indeed, modern disks do not really have anything like a physical geometry, certainly not something that can be described in simplistic Cylinders/Heads/Sectors form), but is the disk geometry that MS-DOS uses for the partition table. Usually all goes well by default, and there are no problems if Linux is the only system on the disk. However, if the disk has to be shared with other operating systems, it is often a good idea to let an fdisk from another operating system make at least one partition. When Linux boots it looks at the partition table, and tries to deduce what (fake) geometry is required for good cooperation with other systems. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
