Fedora and reinstalling Windows

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Wed Dec 6 19:16:49 UTC 2006


Scott van Looy wrote:

> Nothing prevents NTLoader from booting linux, however, it does not do it 
> by default. If you reinstall windows you lose linux until you've 
> manually edited boot.ini to put it back. Therefore, by default, you lose 
> linux, unless you're aware of what's happened and can manually fix it.

That was not my experience. Certainly, if one wipes the partition, that
will happen.

> Anaconda happily autodetects other OSen and gives you entries for them. 
> NTLoader doesn't.

Mike
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