[vox-tech] Replacing FC with Kubuntu in Dual Boot env.

[Alex Mandel]

Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> 
> Mark Kim always used to advocate putting the grub bootstrap
> at the beginning of a Linux partition and leaving the MBR
> alone.  I think this relies on using fdisk to configure
> the Linux partion that you have installed grub on
> as the one which the standard MBR code should load
> the operating system from.  The standard MBR code
> then loads part one of the GRUB or LILO boot code from
> the partition, as though it were loading the Windows boot
> code from there.  The main differences are that Windows anti-virus
> programs don't freak out about the MBR being nonstandard
> and the boot process takes a few milliseconds longer.
> 
> I don't remember having such problems with altered MBRs,
> but I haven't done much dual booting in awhile, either.
> 

Thanks for the info. Last I checked none of my dual-boots have had 
problems with the standard grub install. The only problem I ever had 
like that was an old motherboard that thought grub was a boot sector 
virus, but that was chip based antivirus, not software. - Alex