Re: dual boot / windows 2000 and linux? install what one first?

From: Euneek (jdb666_at_coldmail.com)
Date: 11/03/03 

Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 07:11:58 -0500

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 00:15:36 +0000, Andy Fraser
<andyfraser31@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Euneek uttered the immortal words:
>
>> Yeah, and then the first time you boot Windows, it will overwrite the
>> MBR!
>
>No it won't. I have Win2k and Debian on this box and WinXP and Debian on
>another box and the only time the MBR gets overwritten is when I run /sbin
>lilo.
Yes it will. I have W98SE and RedHat 9.1 on this machine, and every
time I boot W98 it tries to write to the MBR, and is only stopped
because BIOS antivirus setting diplays warning on screen and gives
choice of allowing MBR change or not. Total annoyance.

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