Re-visited running linux on my work Laptop

Well, it was dual boot from the start, Open SuSe 10.0 and Windows XP Professional but after a dell motherboard flash update, umm grub was overwritten. Well let me tell you why. In todays world who uses Floppy drives? you know those little black square things that can hold about 1.44 MB. Back in the day those were used for flashing your motherboard, not today. Dell figures, why not play with the MBR for a mother board uprade. It's probably in the fine print but honestly who reads those. So here is the lesson...