Matthew Daubenspeck declaimed:
> Has anyone had any dual-boot experience with Windows 2000? I currently
> have linux on one drive and 2K on another, and am looking for a viable
> way of dual booting the two...
>
> Thanks!
Don't forget my (politically incorrect) favorite:
- Install Windows NT/2000/XP
- Install Linux
- create a boot floppy
- don't let it write the MBR, instead have it write the boot
sector at the beginning of your root partition
- Boot Linux
- run 'dd bs=512 if=/dev/hda5 of=/bootsect.lnx count=1'
You probably need to be root, user your root partition for /dev/hda5
- Copy bootsect.lnx to your C:\bootsect.lnx (your Windows startup disk).
- Add the following line to your Windows boot.ini file:
C:\bootsect.lnx="Debian Linux"
Voila! The NT Loader will now offer to boot Linux. You can even make it
the default.
Pro: This technique violates the Microsoft Software License Agreement
you agreed to when you installed Windows. They make you promise not
to use their OS loader to boot a non-Microsoft OS. Every time
I do
it I feel like Jesse James.
Con: You have to update the bootsect.lnx file each time you run lilo, and
it's not something you really want to brag about at your local LUG.
The Truth: Someday I will succumb to Dman's evangelizing and try Grub,
meanwhile I boot from lilo and use the 'Other' option to boot
Windows, but I do have a shellscript
in my root directory that
updates the bootsect.lnx thing
automatically. I'd love to find a
better use for that 10 GB of disk
space, but this weekend I have
to make a PowerPoint thingy for a
class I'm taking :-(
Cheers,
Paul
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