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BOOTMGR and new Linux installation (Users)

posted by glennmcc Homepage E-mail, North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 15.01.2025, 00:43

> For many years I use the BOOTMGR boot manager from this site on some of my
> computers.
> Now I will speak about the modern one with Win10 + FreeDOS.
>
> So, in this machine I have one physical hard disk partitioned into three
> partitions - Win10, FreeDOS and NTFS partiotion, now without OS (in the
> past I tried to install WinXP but without success)
To install Linux onto that currently NTFS partiton,
you will of-course need to change it to type 83 and reformat as ext4

>
> The BootMGR is configured to let me choose from these 3 partitions.
> Of course, if I select the partition without OS it will not boot to
> anything.
>
> Now I would like to install in this partition some Linux. (Ubuntu?,
> something else?)
> I have been never using Linux so it is a reason why I uncertain now.
> Do I have to be careful about something during the Linux instalation?
> What about MBR? Is here some danger that Linux installer will overwrite the
> MBR with BootMGR?
> Of course, I want to keep the possibility to boot Win10 and FreeDOS.
Yes, you'll need to be careful during Linux installation to be sure that the MBR does not get rewritten.
If I recall correctly from when I tried Ubuntu a few years ago, it will try to install GRUB as bootloader.

I can't speak to BOOTMGR but I can say that linux lilo
installed in the MBR _will_ boot DOS, WinCrap & Linux

Perhaps BOOTMGR will also do the same after getting Linux installed.

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