Is It Possible To Install Win 7 RC Without Bootloader ?
Right now my laptop is running ubuntu jaunty and using GRUB as the bootloader. My past experience is that windows installs will overwrite my primary HD boot sector and put in its own bootloader. I feel fairly confident that I can tweak grub to run Win7 RC if I can get it to not install its own bootloader since otherwise I would lose access to my ubuntu install which I use for everything.
I have to admit, I lost faith in MS with Vista's release and switched over to GNU/Linux but would like to give Win7 a shot and see if it may be bringing windows back into a productive state. If anyone knows of a way to tweak the install process to bypass a bootloader that would be helpful.Â
View Replies (Posted: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 5:47 PM)
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