On 11 May 2014 at 16:14, Timothy Murphy wrote: To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Upgrading Windows on a Linux laptop Date sent: Sun, 11 May 2014 16:14:39 +0100 Organization: Trinity College Dublin Send reply to: gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx, Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > I rarely use Windows on my dual-boot Fedora-20/KDE laptop, > but I'd like to update Windows XP to Windows 7 now. > > I found when I did this on a CentOS machine > I was unable to get back to Linux, > and had to re-install CentOS. > I don't understand why, as I had saved and re-installed the MBR. > > Am I wrong in thinking that this should be sufficient? > If not, what else do I need to save? > > I don't intend to make any partition changes. > > All suggestions and advice gratefully received. > The MBR isn't all of the boot process anymore, generally additional code is in the sectors after the first sector. I have a disk imaging project, and gone to having it save a lot more than 1 sector with the MBR backup process. Generally, the first partition starts at 1M instead of the second track. Know that grub2 puts some extra code after the MBR and assume that 7 and above also do. > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > > -- > 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 +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ROSETTA 15170995.828796 | SETI 25347421.019853 ABC 16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN 24179686.220443 -- 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
