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Re: how to clear mbr



On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:43:53PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
 
> I have found that W2K doesn't wipe out the grub menu tho XP does. And

That's not my experience. I *always* had to restore grub after 
reinstalling W2k. Maybe your grub wasn't in the MBR?

> installing W2K over grub shouldn't cause a problem, should it? It will
> j ust overwrite the mbr.  Is it really needed to do that dd command
> before installing W2K?

AFAIK it's not necessary, but you better have a live CD or similar to 
restore grub/lilo after installing.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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