Please i want to know if in a dual-boot system, having installed grub and MBR on
different partitions,I would have the chance to select which bootloader should be the default at any point in time.
In other words,can i set grub to have a higher priority than MBR in such a system
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Jump to PostMBR is an area at the very beginning of the hard drive. When you start the computer, the Bios (which is a little hardware program on the motherboard) looks for the hard drive (and other bootable devices) and if it finds a hard-drive, it starts running the code present in …
Jump to PostMBR can only boot Windows, and Grub can boot Linux, Windows and other OSes (like BSD).
So if grub is not default, you probably do not have acess to Linux.
That means you have to boot it through a live CD, or if you can't boot live CD you have …
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