Timothy Murphy wrote:
On Saturday 31 January 2004 00:25, Jeff Vian wrote:
>>I have heard that Windows will wipe out the boot info for Linux if you
>>install Windows on a box that already has Linux installed.
>>
>>
>this can hapen if you install the linux boot loader on the MBR then
>install windows.
>
>
Isn't it easy enough to save the MBR
dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr bs=512 count=1
and then re-install it if windows overwrites it:
dd if=mbr of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
yes, that works.
BUT you must be careful to do the save before you load windows, AND must
have a boot floppy or a bootable CD sucy as knoppix or the install CD
with rescue mode so you can get back to the location you saved it and do
the restore.