Re: any difference ?

Hi

Installing Linux Fedora asks you if you want to install the Linux boot
manager and replace Master Boot Record (MBR). I did this on my machine tha
has two installs of Windows XP. After installing the GRUB boot manager or
what ever it was and replacing the MBR I first have to stop the boot of
Linux. Then I get the very same boot menu as Windows XP installed earlier.

If the boot and MBR fails as it dit one time for when I installed Linux I
just had to make a temporarilly install of XP to another drive, hence the
two XP installs. That put back the XP boot.ini file as first choise.

I "think" GRUB replaces the MBR and the main boot on the C-drive but not
actually the first C: partition.

But then My Linux boot is on the first partition and my Windows XP are on
drive D and the forth partition of the first drive. A little bit messy but
it works.

I installed the second XP partion to drive D since that is a SATA drive. C
is a IDE. I store Cubase files on my third drive which also os a SATA.

Lars



"Wolfgang Kern" <nowhere@xxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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Hi,
I'm new , just in terms of posting to this group :)

what would you recommend for one who already wrote his own OS
(quite different to windoze, Mac, IBM and L'unix)

I got the opportunity to install SUSE 10.3 or (X)ubuntu 7.10.
Would any of 'em destroy my current boot-manager which allow
me to boot up either win98,winXP,DOS6.00 or (my own) KESYS (all primary).

I know L'unix uses GRUB, but I'm afraid it wont recognise my OS (type 4B).

TIA.
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wolfgang






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