I think WinXP alone won't touch any MBR it doesn't understand. Only the
installer overwrites everything.
Ionut
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 01:03:16PM +0200, Olaf Fr?czyk wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 11:46, Ionut Georgescu wrote:
> > WinXP overwrites the MBR and will always change the active partition to
> > the WinXP partition when it boots. What I did was to install grub in the
> > MBR (has been posted on the list). Windows will then leave the MBR
> > intact.
> Will it work with lilo also?
> Do you know what WinXP checks to not overwrite MBR?
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> Regards,
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> Olaf
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