On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 oms101@freeuk.com wrote:
You wont stop it booting another OS form my experiance, I thought I stored itself and all its code on the master boot record
In the case of my machine killing /boot will kill the machine but If I make /dev/hda1 (or C:) bootable I could of course boot NT again (why would I want too.... oh yeah, games!!)
My reasoning is /boot is /dev/hda2 which is the bootable partition, windows will mark /dev/hda1 (or C:) as bootable when I have to re-install it (windows that is). All I have to do now is change my machine to boot from /dev/hda2 again and everything will work, this is instead of booting the system and chrooting and running lilo or some other recovery procedure.
Anyway it is all very academic since I have a bootable recovery CD-Rom courtesy of someone on this list. And if you don't have a copy or emergency recovery system I suggest grabbing a copy of Trinux of LOAF or some other mini Linux distro and keeping it handy as it will save your life someday (well maybe not your life, but at least you won't have pulled your hair out!)
Of course I have not installed Grub yet, so I will probably seriously harm my system and do something like trash the partition table (now that can be a little tricky to recover from, but it is possible I speak from experience the first thing to do is do not shut the machine down or reboot) but I will see.
Adam