fc2, duel boot, mbr, and other stuff
Hey there,
I'm interested in using an empty partition on my FC2 laptop to load a version of windows. I've heard that loading linux first then windows is not very wise but I really don't want to reconfigure my fc2 box if I don't have to.
My train of thought on accomplishing a win2k/xp install on a linux running box and being able to duel boot is this:
1.) I'd have to create a fat32 partition with the empty partition so that windows has a set partition to work with (it doesn't detect ext2/3 so it would prob. overwrite my working linux partition w/o this step.
2.) Install windows to that partition
3.) Now grub that was on the mbr has been overwritten by the windows bootloader. A question here would be if there is any kernel specific items that grub keeps in the mbr that I would need to recreate. Or can I just boot from CD with a custom grub disc and use that to select my windows/linux boot? Or should I install some other boot manager? does the overwrite of grub permanently fsck up the ability to load from linux?
Does anyone have any experience with a setup like this?
Thanks ahead of time.
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