My understanding from what I have read that MBR is not recommended for Win2K or NT, which Grove must have since it is NTFS. I also was not willing to take the chance with the MBR location of the Linux boot loader for Win2K. Art -----Original Message----- From: M. Clark [mailto:m.j.c@strato.net] Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 8:56 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Linux partitioning On Saturday 23 February 2002 11:17, you wrote:
I did this with SuSE 7.0.. In order not to mess up the Master boot record on the hard disk I put LILO on a floppy. When I want to boot Linux I use the floppy to boot. Works well. There are ways to have the harddrive be multiboot but just didn't want to take the risk.
You can have SuSE install LILO in the MBR. LILO then acts as a boot manager and you can select which OS you want to boot. I have this on my laptop and it works well. If things go awry and you can't book the "other" OS (unlikely), the MBR is backed up during the SuSE install. There is a command to reinstall it from the backup. This information is presented to you during the install. Go for the MBR; it's easy. -- Regards, Malcolm KMail l.3.1 -- KDE 2.2.2 -- SuSE Linux 7.3 Remove the dots to email me -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com