Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

["Owen Heisler" <owenh000@gmail.com>]

On 1/29/07, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:54:56PM +0000, John K Masters wrote:
> > It can be done but it is very, very convoluted. Windows always
> > likes to overwrite the MBR which means you will lose GRUB or LILO.
>
> Not necessarily.  You can tell LILO to put its MBR on a floppy disk.
> (technically then its only a BR).  Test if by booting from the floppy,
> and then keep it away fropm the disk drive while you are installing
> Windows.  Even if you lose the MBR on the hard disk, you can boot from
> the floppy.  Some people use the floppy as their way of telling the
> machine to boot Linux instad of Windows.

I just make sure I change the drive boot order in the BIOS to the one
I want Windows on listed first.  Then Windows writes on the MBR there
instead of the drive I will actually be booting off of using grub.