Adding Windows 2000 into a dual-boot after the fact?

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sat Jan 31 13:01:17 UTC 2004


On Saturday 31 January 2004 00:25, Jeff Vian wrote:

> > I have heard that Windows will wipe out the boot info for Linux if you
> > install Windows on a box that already has Linux installed.
>
> this can hapen if you install the linux boot loader on the MBR then
> install windows.

Isn't it easy enough to save the MBR
dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr bs=512 count=1
and then re-install it if windows overwrites it:
dd if=mbr of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1


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