Re: Dual Boot With Win XP - Debian First?

[Mitja Podreka]

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Thanks for the advice so far.  So the only issue that will arise is 
the bootloader will appear to disappear?  Once that is fixed, 
everything will be working correctly?
Yes. The only thing you have to worry is that you install Windows on the 
first partition of  the first disc and that it doesn't install itself 
over the whole disc (I think that HomeEdition does this). I've done it 
many times and Debian was always there, when I fixed the mess left by 
Windows.
I'm still new to a lot of this computer / linux stuff. Where is the 
bootloader anyways?  What's the issue with simply going into bios and 
disabling the hard disk that windows sits on and setting the linux as 
primary drive?  Would that still not let you boot into Linux?
I'm not an expert, but as far as I know BIOS is dealing with hardware ( 
in this case hard disc as a  whole) and not with partitions on that 
disc, so BIOS won't help.

What windows does during the install is overwrite the MBR and thus 
deleting the reference to Linux bootloader. What you have to do is to 
overwrite the MBR again and insert the reference to Windows into GRUB 
configuration.

regards
Mitja


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