Multi-install question

From: Benjamin J. Weiss (benjamin_at_Weiss.name)
Date: 09/30/03

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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:26:03 -0500 (CDT)

    I have a multi-boot test system. It currently has one drive with both XP
    and Shrike installed. I installed XP first, so I'm using Grub as the boot
    loader.

    I've installed a second drive and am about to install Win2K on it. Now, I
    know that this is going to break my install and that I'm going to have to
    do something to fix it, and I just wanted to make sure that I understand
    what's about to happen.

    The win2k install will leave the hda partition table alone, but will
    over-write hda's MBR, telling it to point to the boot sector on hdb (where
    I'll be installing win2k), correct? So, all I should have to do is:

    a) backup hda's MBR (dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1)
    b) install win2k on hdb
    c) restore hda's MBR (dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1)
    d) manually edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and add an entry for hdb

    Does this sound correct?

    Thanks!

    Ben 

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