[Sheflug] re-install

[Barrie Bremner <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Damian" == Damian Bamforth <damian.b [at] btinternet.com> writes:

    Damian> I have a system dual booting between caldera and win98,
    Damian> using grub as the boot manager. Win has become so unstable
    Damian> I need to reinstall it. The problem is that windows will
    Damian> want to rewrite the boot sector during the install. Is it
    Damian> possible under linux to write-protect the boot sector so
    Damian> win can't touch it, or if not, how would I go about making
    Damian> a back up of the boot sector and then restore this after
    Damian> windows has finished messing it up?

I'd probably just put GRUB onto a floppy to boot the system with, then
reinstall GRUB back to the boot sector/MBR of your harddrive once
you've booted back into Linux with the floppy.

I've no idea if it's possible to persuade Windows not to overwrite the
MBR when it's installing, but the method above is the way I'd do it.

There are images you can put straight onto a floppy at

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/

Cheers.

Baz.

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