> Booting linux from ntldr is much more complicated than booting windows from > lilo or grub.
Eric, no offense, but how exactly is it more complicated? u press DOWN then ENTER (same as grub actually). Aside from the fact that ntldr is a M$ product (but so is winblows itself) I dont see it being any worse. Not as far as ease of use goes anyway. :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Hattemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 00:57 Subject: Re: [luau] Help With Dual Boot Install > I imagine its possible for llilo or grub to go bad or whatnot, but to > install lilo or grub generally works fine. Booting linux from ntldr is much > more complicated than booting windows from lilo or grub. If you set up > lilo, and it explodes and dies, (which I've never seen happen), boot off a > linux install CD, start up fdisk, and set the windows partition to be the > active partition. This will get you directly into windows the next time you > boot. This is only necessary if you mess something up. Win winNT/2000/XP, > you can go into the partition editor (win2000 is control panel, > administraive tools, computer management.). then go in there and set the > linux partition as active, and you can get another shot at setting up lilo. > > -Eric Hattemer > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "S Chouinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 10:38 PM > Subject: RE: [luau] Help With Dual Boot Install > > > > > If you try to setup dual boot, do NOT put grub or lilo into the > > > mbr as win2k has a sick problem with it (it will not boot). > > > > This was what I read, and decided to play it safe since I don't have much > > slack to mess with this system and lose time fixing it. Your procedure > below > > sounds good, if boot.ini doesn't work properly I can always go into > recovery > > mode and restore a backup version. > > > > > I double checked the procedures for using win2k boot.ini and it > > > seems that the procedures I posted earlier are correct. ==> > > > I have successfully used XP with Slackware by doing the following: > > > > > > run liloconf (select expert mode) add only the linux partition in > > > the boot order, set the delay timer to 0, and install lilo into > > > the first sector of your linux partition (again, do NOT install > > > it in the master boot record!). > > > > > > run dd if=/dev/hdax of=/tmp/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 (replace > > > hdax with the partition you have linux installed on) > > > > > > copy /tmp/linux.bin to your Win2k c:\ > > > > > > then edit c:\boot.ini and add a line like this: > > > c:\linux.bin=Lunix > > > > > > here's an example: > > > ============================== > > > [boot loader] > > > timeout=30 > > > default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS > > > [operating systems] > > > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="M$ Winblows XP" /fastdetect > > > c:\linux.bin="Lunix" > > > ============================== > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUAU mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau >
