On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:51:00 -0600 Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > Grumpy_Penguin wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 14:59, Arghavan Sabahi wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> Some time ago I installed Fedora Core 4 on my PC with your > >> great help. > >>Everything was fine until when I decided to reinstall Windows > >>XP. I formated the two partitions which were for windows' use > >>and reinstalled it. > > [snip] > > > This is a famous W$ problem/feature. The installation of > > windows overwrites the master boot record. > > If windows is installed first then install linux ...Then lilo > > or grub is smart enough to recognize the other operating > > system...windows ain't that smart > > This is untrue. I have a machine which is dual-boot Windows XP and > Fedora Core. I use the Windows XP boot manager to boot Fedora (via > GRUB). > > [snip] > > Mike But did you install Windows first or Linux (any flavor) first? Because Widnows (as far as I have ever experienced) overwrites the boot sector. You can of course use the Windows Boot manager to boot linux as I have done this before, but you must install Windows first and then your flavor os linux. Is this not correct? I've never experienced it any other way. -- Alex White ethericalzen@xxxxxxxxx Life is a prison, death is a release
