The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, GreyCloud
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on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:44:37 -0600
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Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:39:41 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
| which explains that Vista will continue to wipe your master boot record
| on install.
As usual, your headlines are totally fictional.
Overwriting the MBR is not the same thing as wiping a Linux partition.
Cut this shit out, Roy.
Uh... doesn't FDISK/MBR rewrite the MBR? Last time I did that I got rid
of an old Linux distro (Caldera), and then rebooted straight to windows
without LILO in place.
Pedant Point:
The distro is still there. All rewriting the MBR does
is forestall the computer's ability to boot it, but it's
still taking up a partition (or two or three) on one's
hard drive.
A Universal GRUB floppy should be able to boot it no
problem, for example, or one can use a CD-ROM/DVD livedisc
in rescue mode.
True, but I then went one step further with FDISK to eliminate that
partition. Of course rescue would bring it back, but that wasn't what I
wanted to do... I wanted to install Solaris at that time. Now Solaris
boot manager really slices up the MBR beyond recognition in regards to
windows. Doing an FDISK/MBR when you have Solaris and windows
installed... hehehe... you can't even boot into windows after that.
That's where the rescue disk comes in handy in redoing that MBR, but it
wasn't easy to figure out as Suns bootloader sliced up the MBR into four
different areas... a mess.
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Where are we going?
And why am I in this handbasket?
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