XP does not wipe MBR

[Ritwik Bhattacharya]

Hi,

I've been dual-booting RH and WinME for some time now, and decided to
switch to XP. As with previous M$ OSes, I'd expected that I would have to
reinstall GRUB, as the MBR would get wiped out. Armed with my trusty boot
CD, I waited for the install to finish. Imagine my surprise, when, at the
reboot, GRUB came up, totally unscathed by the XP install!! I guess M$ is
coming to terms with the fact that other OSes are here to stay :).

Just FYI.

Ritwik

[Wolfgang Fischer]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:10:16 -0600, Ritwik Bhattacharya wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been dual-booting RH and WinME for some time now, and decided to
> switch to XP. As with previous M$ OSes, I'd expected that I would have to
> reinstall GRUB, as the MBR would get wiped out. Armed with my trusty boot
> CD, I waited for the install to finish. Imagine my surprise, when, at the
> reboot, GRUB came up, totally unscathed by the XP install!! I guess M$ is
> coming to terms with the fact that other OSes are here to stay :).

No. If m$ decided to make it possible to let other OSes intact, they
would make it possible to choose whether to wipe the MBR or not. I think
it didn't wipe your MBR only because you upgraded from windoze me.

PS: Why don't you ask this in a M$ newsgroup?

>
> Just FYI.
>
> Ritwik

[mjt]

Ritwik Bhattacharya wrote:

> I guess M$ is
> coming to terms with the fact that other OSes are here to stay

.... dont bet on it ... why do you think the newly formed
"Linux Team" [at m$] is for? and ALSO the plethora of
money shoved up SCO's nose is for?
..
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[Bit Twister]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:10:16 -0600, Ritwik Bhattacharya wrote:

> I guess M$ is
> coming to terms with the fact that other OSes are here to stay :).

Oh, you bet.
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