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I have Windows Server 2003 and Linux installed on one hard drive [on separate partitions]. My first partition is the linux boot partition, and maintains Grub. When I boot the Windows partition and shutdown W2k3 keeps modifying the MBR to boot directly, and only to the Windows partition. How do I prevent this behavior? I rather like using Grub to make boot selections?

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Perhaps the motherboard has the "boot sector virus protection" option?

gbarry
Nope. Windows 2003 changes the MBR in fdisk.
monksy
+2  A: 

Try to nstall GRUB on the first sector of the /boot partition, not in the MBR.

Oleksandr Bolotov
Then you can copy GRUB's boot sector into a file in windows, and add it to the Windows boot menu.
Peter Cordes