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

From: Andy Fraser (andyfraser31_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/03/03 

Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 20:40:01 +0000

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.

You're the only person affect that I know of then. I've dual-booted with
Win98, Win2k and WinXP without any problems and have never heard of Windows
trying to rewrite the MBR on boot unless the PC is virused or running a
utility designed to rewrite the MBR if it changes. 

-- 
Andy.

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