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UnitedLinux setup: does preserve boot block?
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| Timo Nentwig 2002-10-03, 5:25 am |
| I want install UL onto a partition on a hard disk which currently contains
XP. Since YaST will install its own MBR and thereby does overwrite the old
XP loader, does the loader preserve the old settings and allow me to choose
between the OSes and to boot XP from the new loader?
Just want to be sure before installing...
thx
tcn
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| Joe Fredrickson 2002-10-03, 8:25 pm |
| On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:04 pm, Timo Nentwig posted to alt.os.linux the
following blurb ::
> I want install UL onto a partition on a hard disk which currently contains
> XP. Since YaST will install its own MBR and thereby does overwrite the old
> XP loader, does the loader preserve the old settings and allow me to
> choose between the OSes and to boot XP from the new loader?
>
> Just want to be sure before installing...
>
> thx
> tcn
> --
> http://timo-nentwig.de/
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> "If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker." - Albert
> Einstein (1879-1955)
YaST is only the setup installer/booter, during installation a bootloader
(eg grub or lilo) will be installed. Using either grub or lilo you can
choose to boot winXP or linux
# Sample lilo.conf file
.....
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
....
other=/dev/<winxp drive>
label=windows
# Sample grub conf file
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-new root=/dev/hdb6 hdd=ide-scsi
title=Windows
root (<disk>,<partition> )
Note: with grub partition and disk counting starts at zero
therefore (hd1,1) is the 2nd disk and 2nd partition
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cheerio
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