A quaint phenomenon about the MBR

zwylinux · 06-04-2006, 04:50 AM

I have two OS,Windows 2000 and ubuntu606.Yesterday I install anew 2000 because a certain problem which is no need to tell.After finish installing the 2000,reboot the computer,a quaint phenomenon happend.The windows 2000 didn't rewrite the MBR,so I can start the linux as usual.
I can't believe this,but how can that happen?

Can someone tell me why???

jimieee · 06-04-2006, 05:51 AM

How many disks do you have? Are you installing Windows on a different disk to the one you're booting from is what I'm getting at.

zwylinux · 06-04-2006, 05:59 AM

I have only one disk.

syg00 · 06-04-2006, 06:21 AM

Let's see output from

Code:

dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 | hexdump -C | less

(make it sda if appropriate).

zwylinux · 06-04-2006, 06:37 AM

what do you mean by this?

syg00 · 06-04-2006, 06:39 AM

It will print out the MBR so we can see which bootloader is installed.

DeanLinkous · 06-04-2006, 09:41 AM

first partition isnt set active/bootable??? So is everything working normally still? Can you still get into windows and everything?