The question came up while I was trying to solve a problem (see thread on unable to boot using LCD monitor). Apparently Linux with X11 is not very good at noticing or handling a change in monitor hardware. Past initial setup it seems to use the same setup regardless of what monitor you attach until you manually ask it to reconfigure. Problem occurs if the new monitor can't run with the old settings you have no way to do that.

Anyway, while trying to fix it, It occurred to me that I might end up having to reinstall Linux and I was not sure how to do that since the original MBR for XP was gone. And you see the problem being that the current MBR is grub and I do not know if doing a linux install over that would pick up the windows boot since it is only mentioned in the /boot/grub/menu.list that the install would wipe out.

So, are you still sure of your answer?

On 9/23/06, Patrick C <patrick.pxc.c@gmail.com> wrote:

You should just be able to install a new version and let it install its own bootloader, and just let it nail the old MBR.

And since you offered... why?

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