On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 02:39:33AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 14:18, Pigeon wrote: > > It is true that Windoze doesn't like changes to the MBR. To hack the > > Win98 MBR I had to include code to put the original MBR back after the > > hack had done its work, then make Windoze reinstall the hacked version > > after it had done its check. That relied on having DOS available > > underneath and probably would be much harder in 2k. It's not something > > I would really recommend! > > No, Windows 95/98/ME all do just fine without the MBR. You can have lilo > or grub steal it and windows wont even figure it out. Now Windows > NT/2000/XP all need the MBR and wont boot without it. Under these you > have to use the windows boot loader to load grub or lilo then they > continue to boot linux. Best way is probably to make a grub boot floppy > though.
Not true. Win2k boots fine from grub, which is installed in the MBR here. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@;incanus.net prepBut nI vrbLike adjHungarian! qWhat's artThe adjBig nProblem? -- alec flett @netscape -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
