Windows installations likes to rewrite the MBR. So, make sure you have either a bootable diskette or that you can boot your installlation CD/DVD. The CD/DVD has a "Boot Installed System" menu item. The just bring up YasT2 and reset LIlo (or do it manually). On 13 Sep 2002 at 17:42, Phoenix wrote:
HI,
my problem is this:
I wanted to switch to Linux and needed a new HD. So I bought the new HD and then installed SuSe Linux on it. I connected the old HD as primary slave and let is as it was. This means my primary slave HD contains a W2k installation and the MBR is set up to be primary master. When reinstalling W2k the installer says it needs to rewrite the MBR of my primary master HD. I fear that I won't be able to run my Linux installation after installing W2k... Should I just do the installation and then install a Linux bootmanager? But if that works - I have no clue how...
Any suggestions or solutions? It would be great if the data on my slave HD won't get lost. I backed up the absolutely necessary stuff, but I'd like to keep the rest, too.
Regards,
Phoenix
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