On 1/30/06, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hda is my Windows XP, without which, i couldn't have joined this > mailing list or search for information online. I chose to completely > preserve the MBR (and all of my first hard drive) as it is my lifeline > if something goes wrong. The next task at hand is to figure out how to > tweak the windows boot.ini file to default boot my LFS system. After > that I can modify any and all linux configuration files to suit my > tastes. Once I've accomplished that, it's on to the BLFS book. :-D
Congrats, Josh. The first one is the toughest. It get's infinitely easier from here on out. I've been doing the dual-boot thing with XP for about a year now. Getting boot.ini sounds like an interesting exercise, but going with GRUB will be much easier. GRUB is intentionally built to handle many types of systems, while Windows, well... I can say that you shouldn't be scared to overwrite the MBR. I was scared, too, but it turns out it's not dangerous. All you need to rewrite the MBR with the XP bootloader is the XP CD. That's in the highly unlikely event that you decide that linux is not for you and you want to go back to just Windows. If you want to email me off-list about tips for dual-booting with Windows, feel free to. This probably isn't the best forum to discuss it, though. My email address should be in the header of this message. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
