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From: Stephen_Haffly@p27.f45.n396.z1
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:35:03 -0500
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Hello Alan,

On (07 Jan 06) Alan Ianson wrote to James Bradley...

 AI> I have always installed grub or lilo to the mbr. I've seen the option
 AI> to install to a partition but I don't know what the would be useful
 AI> for. I think (hd0,0) would be your swap drive. 0 for for first hard
 AI> drive and 0 for first partition, you'll need 0,1 (I think).

It is useful if one has Partition Magic and has already installed Boot
Magic to the mbr.  Although it ties up one of the four primary
partitions, it has been rock-solid through multiple experiments with
multiple versions of Linux on my laptop.  By installing grub or lilo to
the boot partition, it means not having the risk of goofing up the xp
partitions that I unfortunately still need because of some equipment for
which there is no good Linux drivers (such as a Brother MFC-420cn which
prints great with xp but lousy with cups and scans with xp but won't
scan with Linux, or for the digitizing software for my wife's embroidery
machine which does not exist for Linux in any form afaik).  I've seen
too many messages in different forums such as "I installed XYZ Linux and
now XP won't boot."  My way has worked for me so far.

I have been using Partition Magic since version 2.0, when it was an OS/2
and DOS program only.  They semi-support Linux partitions, but the main
focus now is on Windows as they abandoned OS/2 some years ago.

If one does not have PM though, I suppost GRUB in the MBR is the best
solution.


Regards,

Stephen
Team OS/2, Team PPoint/IREX

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