Klaus Knopper answers your Linux questions

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Booting GRUB on a VBR

Hello Klaus: I always enjoy your column more than anything else in the magazine. It is accurate and useful.

Background: I had a Windows 7 system with one big hard disk of about 1TB. This is not a GPT disk, it is a traditional MBR/BIOS disk. Of course, there were already three partitions in use on the disk when I got it home from the store.

I successfully (but not without a good deal of trouble) installed a version of Linux Mint on this system, and now I can dual boot. I am not much of an expert on booting and the like. While doing my research I was led to believe that I did not want to mess with any partition that Windows 7 knew about. For this reason, I decided to leave the master boot record (MBR) intact. The only change I made was to shrink the main Windows 7 partition, create a new logical/extended partition, and then create a bunch of logical partitions (5-9) under that.

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