Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo?
Date:	Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:38:56
Message-Id:	`CA+hid6GNQm7FQ1VerS1_i28zHTKBcBKYk5P22TWZVwoaAXVoVg@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo? by Nilesh Govindarajan

1	On 26 September 2011 16:26, Nilesh Govindarajan <contact@××××××××.com> wrote:
2	> And you really need not worry about it, some geek (Torvalds?) will
3	> surely find out a way.
4
5	Oh, I don't doubt that I'll be able to boot Linux, I just think that
6	we're going to enter another era where setting up a functional and
7	easily-switched dual boot between Linux and Windows will be difficult
8	again for a while.
9	Hopefully it won't require us to all be careful to buy specific
10	hardware, but who knows.
11
12	Case in point: The Windows 7's installer mangling of the MBRs on disks
13	that it has no business touching.