I keep my Win98 on a second drive, that way I can unplug an offending OS. Windows must believe it is the only one, did some one say ego? :-) On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 19:21 +0100, Ambrogio wrote: > Il giorno dom, 05/02/2006 alle 13.32 +0100, Jeremy Thompson ha scritto: > > 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! > > Even if Windows overwrite the MBR there are two possibilities: > > The first is to revrite MBR with LILO or Grub or another bootloader. > > The second is the the Microsoft bootloader for Windows NT, 2000, 2003, > (and I think also for XP) is capable to call another bootloader. > So you can boot Linux by the microsoft bootloader. > > The problem may be in the C: disk and in the fact that microsoft like to > boot from the first partition of the first disk. > But it's not a real problem > > Searching on the net you can find a lot of articles regarding it. > > Bye > Ambrogio > >
