Re: any difference ?
- From: Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:49:44 GMT
"Mr. R" <jon.doe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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.
It would really help if you described things a bit more clearly. And you
should know whether it was grub or lilo you installed. (It says so on
bootup.)
Anyway, IF you installed the boot manager onto the MBR then it is that boot
manager that should come up. And it is up to you to figure out which boot
you wnat to come up as the default, and how long you want to give it to
allow you to decide which one you want to boot. If you want windows first,
make windows first. If you want Linux first make it first. I do not know
grub well, so cannot guide you, but it is possible to tell grub which
operating system to boot by default, and how long to wait to allow you to
choose which OS you want to boot.
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.
grub goes where you tell it to go. If youtell it to go onto the MBR, it
will go there. If you tell it to go onto some partition (eg what you call
the C: partition-- the first windows readable primary partition on the
first drive) it will be installed there.
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.
AFAIK windows will not boot from the second drive.
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.
C and D do not refer to drives but to partitions. Windows partition
ordering is to label all of the primary partitions first (assuming they are
readable by windows) starting from the first drive and going through to the
Nth drive. Then it goes back to the first drive and labels the logical
partitions in order. Thus if you add a second drive, Windows labeling will
get all screwed up. A completely idiotic scheme.
Lars
"Wolfgang Kern" <nowhere@xxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
news:foik53$13r$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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