Re: Follow-up to "Windows kills GRUB"

[dman]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:05:16PM -0800, Jeffrey A. Cobb wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| Okay,  so I'm being less than aware.  I didn't realize Windows
| changes the active partition when it's installed.  I changed the
| active partion back to the MBR and everything works fine.

Yeah, windows really sucks.  At the very least it should allow
coexistance of other OSes (it doesn't even allow itself!).

| BUT my "buglist" still applies.  Would be nice to be able to restore
| GRUB if it ever does get wiped out.

Make a backup floppy.  Put grub and your kernel (linux) on it so that
you can boot it if your hard disk gets messed up.  (or if you need to
re-install windows and it once agains stomps on the MBR so that you
need to re-install grub).  As a side note, don't do any MBR virus
checking from windows because it will think that grub is a virus!

-D

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