<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Nimbus Sans L'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Thursday 20 August 2009 08:54:33 TheOther wrote:<br>
> Julien Claassen wrote:<br>
> > Hello!<br>
> > I'm having a bit of a worry over an istallation: I have a computer<br>
> > with a windows on the first partition, unfortuintely it must remain<br>
> > there. Then on the space behind it I want to install my Linux. How should<br>
> > I go about bootloaders?<br>
> > I could install grub in the MBR right up front, but then I should take<br>
> > care of win's bootloader, in any case win is known to simply overwrite<br>
> > another bootloader, if it feels like updating. Wouldn't really want to<br>
> > risk it. Is there a way to put grub at the start of the Linux partition<br>
> > and make it known to win, tat there's another bootloader sitting there,<br>
> > waiting to be started? Kindest regards and THANKS!<br>
> > Julien<br>
><br>
> Hello Julien,<br>
><br>
> You didn't say which version of Windows you're running. With Win95<br>
> and Windows NT, I had no trouble installing Linux with GRUB using the<br>
> Master Boot Record (MBR). As has been said before, install Windows<br>
> first and Linux second.<br>
><br>
> But when I got my laptop with Windows Vista pre-installed, this did<br>
> not work. After Linux was installed, Vista would not boot. I did a<br>
> Vista reinstall and forgot about Linux on that machine.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Maybe you didn't resize the NTFS partition properly?<br>
You have to repartition with an external tool (I usually use the RIP live distro for this), that takes care of resizing the NTFS partition properly.<br>
I think this works best when it's brand new, so all the data on the NTFS partition is at the start, so you don't loose anything when resizing.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>sincerely,<br>
Marije</p></body></html>