Re: Safe install

2009-09-29 Thread Robert Goley
I was late to the long string of emails... I was just discussing the Boot from Windows first perspective. I agree though. Anything you have physical access to is already insecure Robert On 9/29/2009 6:40 PM, Michael wrote: Robert: I recommend using the "GRUB For DOS" Yes l

Re: Safe install

2009-09-29 Thread Michael
Robert: > I recommend using the "GRUB For DOS" Yes looks like another (and maybe easier) way. Still, if you're mostly working from Linux, the most simple way is just to install grub and setup chainloaders (which is done at system install anyway). All you loos is the ThinkVantage button, no gr

Re: Safe install

2009-09-29 Thread Robert Goley
I recommend using the "GRUB For DOS" instead of the direct boot sector loading. Easier to setup and more configurable. You simply load the grl boot file in place of your bootgrub.bin file in the boot.ini configuration. Good for getting back into linux portion of a Windows dual boot setup

Re: Safe install

2009-09-29 Thread Michael
First of all, i've never tested it with Vista myself so i need to carefully restrict my statements to XP. Both Windows and ThinkVantage have their own bootloader, and grub can boot that bootloader. All you need is the chainloader command in grub.cfg (this is for grub2, but it's very similar for

Re: Safe install

2009-09-29 Thread Dirk Linnerkamp
Hi Sayeh et al, Am Dienstag, den 29.09.2009, 10:45 +0330 schrieb Sayeh Ebrahimi: > With the Ubuntu installer, no I didn't. I guess I should have. But > given that I was installing on a second blank disk drive, I didn't > mind whatever happened to that drive. I presumed that my second drive > would

Re: Safe install

2009-09-29 Thread Sayeh Ebrahimi
With the Ubuntu installer, no I didn't. I guess I should have. But given that I was installing on a second blank disk drive, I didn't mind whatever happened to that drive. I presumed that my second drive would have its own master boot record on which GRUB would be installed and the installer did pr