Window changes the boot flags, argh.

[TheFourthBeast]

First, I hate windows. Second, can you prevent it from changing the boot flags of the various partitions on your hd? Third, I'll keep on searching the posts for the answer, but since I haven't found it in the first 20 minutes, I thought I'd post.

[TheFourthBeast]

Well, I got around this problem temporarily by creating a simple grub boot floppy following these simple instructions; it took about 5 minutes. Now, I leave the floppy in all the time and grub loads from it which increases my boot time (to get to the grub menu) by about 5-10 seconds. Not the ideal situation, so I'm still looking for feedback.

[a thing]

Use cfdisk or similar to toggle the bootable flag on a partition.

[TheFourthBeast]

I'm sorry, I didn't state my problem clearly. I do use fdisk (or cfdisk) to toggle the flags, but then when I load windows (which is on the second partition) it changes the flags: it unflags my first (/boot partition) and flags the second (windows partition). It happens every time I load windows. With the floppy booting first, however, I circumvent the problem for now, cause it doesn't matter which one is flagged.