On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 22:23:11 +0000 Robert Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi David, > > I have a dual boot Windows XP Pro and MDK 9.2 on my P4-M laptop. I had > Windows XP Pro installed as a single NTFS partition (about 36gig). I > just resized the Windows partition using the Mandrake partitioning > tool (why use Partition Magic?? :-) and made a second partition > (native Linux ext-3). I didn't even bother defraging the Windows > partition!! I didn't bother with a shared FAT partition as Linux > support for reading from NTFS is excellent or a swap partition (the > laptop has 1 gig of RAM). I just installed MDK with a Lilo bootloader > and it works great. > > I also have MDK Linux installed on a PC I use as a router/gateway with > > a cheapo MSI motherboard. This MB has a virus checker in the BIOS > which checks the MBR for nasty viri. Unfortunately it thinks Linux is > a virus so I just turned it off (its probably only needed by M$ > Winblows users anyway :-). So don't worry about using the MBR... > budge over Winblows and make room for a real OS :-) > > Robert > > > Robert, mind if I piggyback on this question? I have a new AMD64 laptop, and it came with XP Home (of course!) I want to put XP-64 as well as Mandrake 32-bit and 64-bit. Can lilo or grub handle copying files before starting to boot Windows versions? Here's the rub: all versions of Windows derived from NT have two critical startup files: ntldr and ntdetect.com. These are incompatible between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions, so I need the boot mechanism to copy in the right versions from backup directories before kicking off the boot process. System Commander does this, and I just learned the hard way that BootMagic (comes with Partition Magic) does *not* <grrrrrrrrrrrrr>. Seeing as I have to start all over, I thought I'd try doing it with grub. Thanks. -- Guy Rouillier
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