20 Aug
2009
20 Aug
'09
7:29 a.m.
Hi,
On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:47:56 Julien Claassen wrote:
I'm having a bit of a worry over an
istallation: I have a computer with
a windows on the first partition, unfortuintely it must remain there. Then
on the space behind it I want to install my Linux. How should I go about
bootloaders?
I could install grub in the MBR right up front, but then I should take
care of win's bootloader, in any case win is known to simply overwrite
another bootloader, if it feels like updating. Wouldn't really want to risk
it. Is there a way to put grub at the start of the Linux partition and make
it known to win, tat there's another bootloader sitting there, waiting to
be started? Kindest regards and THANKS!
If you can convince win that the linux partition is a valid partition that can
be booted from, then you are fine. My expirience tells me that windows just
sees an unknown partition (they don't even know about the linux partition
types) and all they offer is to format them...
If you don't want to go the mbr-way, you can use an usb-stick to boot your
linux (and without windows would be booted). Or a good old boot-disk in
3.5"...
Or if you have two hard-disks, install the linux-bootloader on the second one,
make that the default and add the windows-entry booting from the first hd.
Have fun,
Arnold