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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Linux Questions Thread: a bunch of pitfalls, but technically it's possible
 
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wait what
Apr 17, 2007

by Fistgrrl

Mr. Heavy posted:

Boot into the Recovery Console from the Windows install CD first, and run fixmbr and fixboot to reinstall the Windows boot loader. If you don't do this, GRUB will try and find grub.conf on a partition you just wiped, and you won't be able to boot poo poo if you haven't memorized "rootnoverify(hd0,0), chainloader +1, boot" or whatever it is.

You can also do this with the Ubuntu live CD.

http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=3340

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Linux Questions Thread: a bunch of pitfalls, but technically it's possible