Fedora and reinstalling Windows

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Wed Dec 6 20:35:33 UTC 2006


Today James Wilkinson did spake thusly:

> 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.
>
> Not my experience -- whenever I reinstall Windows 2000 it leaves other
> entries in boot.ini alone.

Depends if you do a rescue or not...

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