dual booting

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:41:46AM -0500, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> I really didn't want to install windows, but unfortunately my trading  
> platform only runs on windows so I need access to it on my laptop. I  
> maybe give virtualbox a try first and see it I can live with the lag.

kvm, kqemu, etc.  Lots of good options.  Not having to reboot to run
an application is rather handy, and booting a virtual machine is often
faster than booting on the hardware itself.

> I know how to add the window partition to grub following what I have on  
> my box which I can dual boot, my question should have been how to  
> reinstall grub only from the live CD.

Well the livecd should let you mount the HD and chroot to it to install
the bootloader to the MBR again.

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