Re: Fedora and reinstalling Windows

[Scott van Looy <scott ethosuk org uk>]

On Dec 5 Mike McCarty did spake thusly:

> Peter Reed wrote:
> > ethericalzen gmail com wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:51:00 -0600
> > > Mike McCarty <Mike McCarty sbcglobal net> took out a #2 pencil and
> > > scribbled:
> > >
> > >
> > > Is this not correct? I've never experienced it any other way.
> >
> > This is correct.
>
> How can you know what has happened on my machine?
>
> The fact that Windows overwrites the MBR in no way prevents booting
> Linux using Windows.

Nothing prevents NTLoader from booting linux, however, it does not do it 
by default. If you reinstall windows you lose linux until you've manually 
edited boot.ini to put it back. Therefore, by default, you lose linux, 
unless you're aware of what's happened and can manually fix it.

Anaconda happily autodetects other OSen and gives you entries for them. 
NTLoader doesn't.

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