<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; color: #000099'>Grub2 (aka grub_pc) is very (in my opinion too) picky in where it agrees<br><blockquote id="DWT151" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">to be installed into. If my memory serves correctly, the old grub<br>(grub-legacy) could be installed, for example, into an extended<br>partition, and control passed to it from a Windows bootloader which in<br>turn was booted from the Windows MBR. This let me leave the MBR, with<br>special features to access Windows recovery partitions, intact.<br><br>With grub-pc, I never found a combination which worked this way. I have<br>now developed a workaround for dual-boot systems, but I generally regard<br>grub2 as too restrictive for implementing "creative" boot strategies.<br>Maybe there are good reasons for it to work like this, I do not know...<br><br>Thus my suggestion is to try to use the old grub instead.<br></blockquote><br>Toomas, Thanks, can do that too. But I want to try grub2 first. don't give up so easy (I already gave up kde a while ago because there is still no stable 4 version ;-)<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></blockquote></div></body></html>