Re: Is dual-booting safe?

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/30/05 

Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:54:18 -0500

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:28:30 +0000, Jane Doe wrote:

> that it had indeed clobbered my MBR. So I reinstalled Linux. From that
> point forward it's been smooth sailing.

Why didn't you just boot the installation CD, mount your Linux /
partition, chroot into it and execute /sbin/lilo?

20 years experience!

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