Talk:How to setup boot loaders

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Why does the article say that LILO/GRUB occopy the "MBR or boot sector" while NT Boot Loaded occupies both? You can boot Windows with a GRUB MBR or GRUB with a Windows MBR, so I don't see why the latter is true.
(BTW, sory for the misflag, last edit wasn't "minor".)

--Thinker 09:10, 1 Oct 2005 (CEST)

There might be a better expression for that. What it should say is that NTLDR will always install to the partitions boot sector. You can't just install NTLDR to the MBR (as you can do with grub and lilo). Since it installs to the boot sector, you will also have to install something into the MBR that runs that boot sector. If you just install Windows that boot code kind of also belongs to the NT boot loader. Hence, to have an NT boot loader running, you need to have boot code in both the MBR and the boot sector. Wyrfel 14:13, 1 Oct 2005 (CEST)

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