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Dual boot on a Dell Inspiron?

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In brief:
In order to dual boot without affecting the mbr, you'd need to edit the window's boot.ini file.

You'll need to load grub into the linux partition where /boot resides, instead of your mbr. There are instructions here:

It's written for gentoo, but is applicable for any distro.

All that's necessary is to boot into linux at least once, to copy the grub.mbr file to another medium, in order to transfer it to your C:\ directory, then just editing the boot.ini file.

At least now you won't need a boot floppy anymore.


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