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["Jim Oksvold" <jimoksvold@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Jeg forstår dog ikke hvorfor bootmanager på hda
> skulle blive overskrevet af XP.
> Det sker normalt kun ved installation og større vedlighedoldelse
> af XP. (eller måske der er en opsætning i XP et sted der fixer det
> hver gang XP startes?)
>
>
> --
> mvh Frank Damgaard  |

F.eks:

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/04/07/distroswap.html

> From XP to XP and Red Hat 8.0

My goal was a stable dual-boot system, obtained without an
unnecessarily difficult migration process. For this reason, I
purchased my version of Red Hat 8.0, and I actually studied
significant portions of the included manuals before I started my
upgrade.

The Red Hat Linux 8.0 Installation Guide (section G.1.1) advises, "The
simplest way to make room for Red Hat Linux is to add a new hard drive
to the computer and then install Red Hat Linux on that drive." This
sounded like good advice to me. I purchased a new hard drive and
installed it. After I booted the system, Windows detected the drive,
but it didn't know anything about it. Otherwise, Windows seemed to run
fine.

I followed the procedures in the Red Hat manuals and carefully
installed version 8.0. Finally, when I had completed all of the steps,
I had an operable Linux system, equipped with a nice array of standard
Unix utilities and open source software packages.

There were only two things left to test: 1) Did Windows still run
properly? and 2) Could I boot into both systems? I shut down Red Hat
Linux expecting to see a choice of operating systems. To my surprise,
the system went immediately into Windows XP, but in a "recovery" mode.
Apparently, Windows had detected that the boot sector had been
compromised and intended to "fix" the problem by rewriting the correct
boot information from a backup copy. When I saw this, my immediate
fear was that if I let this happen, I would have no way to return to
the Linux installation I had just configured. I pressed and held the
power button until the system finally shut down.

My desktop computer was, in effect, unusable! Looking again at the Red
Hat manuals, it didn't appear that I had done anything wrong. Instead,
Windows XP was doing something that the Red Hat documentation hadn't
anticipated.

Wondering what to do, I browsed the internet (using my laptop) and
studied other sections of the Red Hat documentation. In the
Troubleshooting section, I saw information about alternative boot
options, which included using a CD or a floppy boot disk. A floppy
boot disk seemed like a simple solution to my problem. I found
references on the internet to a Red Hat utility to create a floppy
boot disk. I booted back into Linux using the Red Hat installation CD,
opened a terminal window, and ran the command. Finally, I had my
dual-boot system: with the floppy in the drive, the computer booted
into Linux; without the floppy, the system booted into Windows XP.



Mvh
Jim Oksvold