The fdisk /mbr command sets your MBR to refer to the boot record on
the active partition. If you change the active partition later, this
is the partition that will boot at startup.
The WinNT loader is stored on the boot record of the partition that
WInNT is installed, not on the MBR. You can do the same with other
boot loaders like LILO and GRUB. When you configure these, write to
your GNU/Linux partition and not to then MBR. Use a tool like fdisk to
set your active partition to the one with that boot loader installed
and then in DOS issue a fdisk /mbr. This method is much more flexible
than writing to your MBR since the partition to be booted from can be
changed simply by changing the active partition. If you are having
problems with LILO or GRUB starting (preventing you from booting
GNU/Linux), you can change the active partiton to your Windos
partition using fdisk and then try to fix the problem from there.
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 14:33, Romanator wrote:
> Nope. It puts it back to it original state before Linux was
> installed. I tried it on NT4 machine with no problems.
>
> Roman
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> Michael Spivak wrote:
> > if you'll do 'fdisk /mbr' you'll erase all your mbr data,
> > including the WinNT OS Loader.....
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