[H-GEN] Boot selector for Debian

[Bradley Marshall]

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On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:50:20PM +1000, Christopher Biggs wrote:
> Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:
> > Unfortunately, I'm left without a boot selector.  I can boot
> > Windows off the disk; I can boot Debian off a rescue floppy
> > telling it to boot from /dev/hda2.  But I really want a little
> > thing at boot that offers me a choice of OS to boot.  
> (NB: You should always install your linux bootloader on the bootblock of
>  the linux partition, never on the mbr, as the mbr gets clobbered by
>  microsoft at every opportunity.)

FWIW, I installed WinNT 4.0 and upgraded to Windows 2003 server yesterday
and it didn't touch the mbr, so I don't believe thats so much of a problem
these days.

Thanks,
Brad
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