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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers installing Windows over UNIX operating system Post 94210 by matrixmadhan on Wednesday 28th of December 2005 04:52:11 AM
Old 12-28-2005
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Originally Posted by mahendramahendr
windows will over write the MBR of unix and it will take you directly into windows when you start the machine.. you can't see the GRUB.

I have faced this problem once, always we need to install in the following sequence windows first, second unix and third linux.

Not sure whether we have other solutions, check well before doing the windows installation.
sequence in installation is preferred and the order you had mentioned is a conventional one.
Besides it is not a rule to install in the above mentioned order.

it is true that windows installation after linux installation would overwrite the existing MBR but still you can boot GRUB from windows.
 

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GRUB-INSTALL(8) 							FSF							   GRUB-INSTALL(8)

NAME
grub-install - install GRUB on your drive SYNOPSIS
grub-install [OPTION] install_device DESCRIPTION
Install GRUB on your drive. -h, --help print this message and exit -v, --version print the version information and exit --root-directory=DIR install GRUB images under the directory DIR instead of the root directory --grub-shell=FILE use FILE as the grub shell --no-floppy do not probe any floppy drive --force-lba force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy BIOS --recheck probe a device map even if it already exists INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename. grub-install copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specfied by --root-directory, and uses the grub shell to install grub into the boot sector. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>. SEE ALSO
grub(8), update-grub(8). The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a Texinfo manual in the grub-legacy-doc package. If the info and grub-install programs are properly installed at your site, the command info grub-install should give you access to the complete manual. grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97) January 2013 GRUB-INSTALL(8)
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