-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/14 08:39, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tim wrote: > >>> I want to upgrade Windows XP on my laptop to Windows 7, but I'd >>> like to be sure that I can get back to Linux afterwards. (I'm >>> sure Windows installation will over-write the MBR.) > >> Some people modify the Windows bootloader, so that *it* can be >> used to boot Linux. You *can* have the Linux bootloader set up >> to choose between booting Windows and Linux, *and* the Windows >> bootloader set up to choose which to boot. > > That's interesting. I've always regarded the Windows bootloader as > a black box, my occasional journeys into the Windows Registry > having proved disastrous. > > But I don't see how both can be on offer - do they use the MBRs of > different drives? > > I've actually done this before. And it can be handy. But for me, the sheer terror of mucking with the NT boot loader kept me from doing it more than once. It was really just to say I did. And there is a trick to it when using MBRs on different drives. But I don't remember the exact details (I did this before Win7 was released, God knows what kind of funky voodoo magic would be needed with Win7 or 8. - -- Mark Haney Network/Systems Administrator Practichem W: (919) 714-8428 Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) 3.13.4-200.fc20.x86_64 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTIFzuAAoJEM/YzwEAv6e70bAH/ifOxTb0Qq/wN2mD1OKex2ZH TgHfJGLSeDxG9gDQuXXJKVFF0k8TlOmNOiDsNBFnWV8q1garsjeEG7HpEU8PZUM7 WwByuhmygSlWJ/qnPI5V3TLl9SPsVqLi29mFOtESzeCWfT6MQyIXYQfzKhDCUCzi cWBI5u7ztsSETX2TblcsEdnlG4E2CuxTAtaat+o6nf9Fw8/u0jIL0bxYfdO9AVAp V9Hm8a3YYHdIvlMJ7AuCO8T9D25tguHjFHECF6KavzFGQVFgxwAtPQDRqFciancJ D5MP+eC1KLpb7QtQGMcPXJxJWZmlpBNyooxxZJvXAgPfBk2SHENsdU/LdQFk7C8= =d0hZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
