Julien Claassen wrote: > Hello! > I'm having a bit of a worry over an istallation: I have a computer with a > windows on the first partition, unfortuintely it must remain there. Then on > the space behind it I want to install my Linux. How should I go about > bootloaders? > I could install grub in the MBR right up front, but then I should take care > of win's bootloader, in any case win is known to simply overwrite another > bootloader, if it feels like updating. Wouldn't really want to risk it. Is > there a way to put grub at the start of the Linux partition and make it known > to win, tat there's another bootloader sitting there, waiting to be started? > Kindest regards and THANKS! > Julien Hello Julien, You didn't say which version of Windows you're running. With Win95 and Windows NT, I had no trouble installing Linux with GRUB using the Master Boot Record (MBR). As has been said before, install Windows first and Linux second. But when I got my laptop with Windows Vista pre-installed, this did not work. After Linux was installed, Vista would not boot. I did a Vista reinstall and forgot about Linux on that machine. On my desktop I had a SCSI drive and an IDE drive. Windows was on the IDE drive and Linux was on the SCSI drive. I was able to Dual-boot with Win95 or Windows NT with Linux, but I settled on a much easier solution which didn't risk the Windows installation or the Linux installation. By having 2 drives in the desktop, I used the BIOS to select which hard drive to boot first. If I wanted Windows, I booted the IDE drive. If Linux, then I booted the SCSI drive. In Linux I could view the entire Windows drive which was formatted in FAT or FAT32. The reverse was not true since I was using EXT3 for the Linux drive. If you only have 1 hard drive, then the link to the howto already provided should get you there, unless you have a Vista installation. If you do have Vista, then I'd do more research to see if anyone is dual-booting Vista and Linux. Best, Stephen. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
