Installation to dedicated disk

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 01 May 2006 05:58, Chanchao wrote:
> Then when installing Dapper: It will overwrite your windows boot
> menu. But that's okay, boot from your windows install CD, go to the
> 'repeair' option where you get a console prompt and let 'fixmbr'
> and 'fixboot' do their stuff.

No no no that's completely wrong. It leaves no way to boot Linux. Why 
install Linux only to then make it unbootable?

fixmbr puts the MS MBR back on the drive, obliterating grub
fixboot reinstalls the NT loader on the Windows boot partition

What the user wants in this case is to include this stanza 
in /boot/grub/grub.conf or menu.lst:

title Windows
	root (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1

and let grub load the Windows loader.

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If only you and dead people understand hex, 
how many people understand hex?

Alan McKinnon
alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
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