Re: Bug#185770: grub: incompatible with Windows 2000 NTFS wheninstalled on MBR

[Bob Hilliard]

David Balazic <address@hidden> writes:

> A wild guess :
> grub stores something ( I think it is the stage1.5 )
> after the MBR in the unallocated space.
> Maybe windows does the same.
>
> ( point : don't store stuff in space you did not allocate
> for yourself ! )
>
> Try telling grub to store the stage1.5 somewhere else.

     Another possible cause of the problem - some other programs,
TurboTax, for example, use space in the MBR for their "activation"
code.
<http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/1549232&mode=thread&tid=185>

Regards,

Bob
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