On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 22:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Uh.. one of the new partitions will house Rh8.0 > > and another will be win2k. Please do suggest > > things I must be on the lookout for (particularly > > with win2k around - eg grub conflicts etc). > > Repeating what I've been told: > Windows apparently has the endearing habit of assuming it'll be the > only OS on the machine, and dumps its own bootloader onto the MBR with > that assumption operating.
Not quite true: Windows clears the MBR of other bootloaders, but doesn't install its own bootloader there. NTLDR (the Windows bootloader) is installed into the partition boot sector - the first 512 bytes of a partition. An IA32 BIOS will first look in the MBR to execute a bootloader. If there is no executable code in the MBR, it will look in the PBS of the first partition. Mike -- __________________________________________________________________________ Mike MacCana Consultant RHCE, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
