https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1338
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-10 15:40 ------- It is possible to use the nt bootloader to boot other OS-es. It's undocumented and rather clumsy, but it works. At home I regulary test several Linux distros on a secondary system, leaving the main partition to Windows. At work we *need* to use the nt bootloader, its corporate policy and the encryption system we use. reportedly gives problems with "other" bootloaders. Anyway, I think that, as opposed to WIndows, any well behaved OS installer should offer the option *not* to wipe out the installed bootloader. Red Hat, Debian and previous Mandrake distros all give the option to install the bootloader on the first sector of the boot-partition instead of the MBR (whether under advanced install or not). It would seem strange if Mdk would leave this feature out. Sounds fine by me. The option doesn't even have to show by default. As long as there's an option hiiden somewhere for those who need it. Regards, Iwan van der Kleyn ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: Madnrake 9.1 Beta 3 During installation the bootloader is installed on the MBR of /dev/hda WITHOUT confirmation, overwriting the installed bootloader (in my case; Windows XP). The user is not able to prevent this, loosing the original bootloader in the process. The bootloader should, like in prevous versions, always offer the possibility to install on the boot partition (/dev/hda[number]). My HDD partitioning scheme on /dev/hda /dev/hda1 - WInXP NTFS /dev/hda5 - Mdk 9.1 Ext3 /dev/hda6 - Linux swap
