I upgraded my computer yesterday and I am trying to set it up to dual boot windows XP and Debian. I bought a new hdd which I installed winXP on. I didn't really want to, but Linux just doesn't cut it when it comes to games. Anyway, I still have my old hdd which has debian installed on it and I want to put it in and be able to dual boot. I have been googling around a bit and found the following config for lilo.
boot = /dev/hda prompt
image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hdb1 label = Debian
other = /dev/hda1 label = WinXP table = /dev/hda
I am mainly concerned about the boot line. Will this overwrite the MBR on the windows drive and render it unusable? Some of the stuff I read seemed to think that windows XP was quite picky about the boot loader.
The other method I found was to put linux as the master drive and remap the drives when loading windows. I will probably end up reinstalling Debian anyway, with a bit more eye-candy now that I have a bit more power :) But I want to extract my home directory and the apt cache first to save lots of redownloading.
Thanks
Luuk
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