Dual Boot with windows: where to put the boot loader?

[Felix Sheldon]

James Wilkinson wrote:

>Felix Sheldon wrote:
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>>Grub will put itself into the first sector of the Ubuntu partition, and 
>>optionally in the MBR as well.
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>>What you can do is copy that sector to a file, and give it to the 
>>windows bootloader that's currently in the MBR.
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><snip good advice>
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>>Unfortunately if you ever upgrade the kernel or reconfigure grub for 
>>some other reason, you'll have to do this all over again...
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>Not in my experience: part of the point of grub over lilo is that grub
>keeps this stuff in the filesystem and re-reads it each boot anyway...
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Good point. I was thinking of lilo, and haven't bothered with windoze 
since switching to grub =)


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Felix