Steve Downing was once rumoured to have said: > At Wednesday, 13 February 2002, you wrote: > > >Adam Bogacki was once rumoured to have said: > >> Hi, I was wondering if anyone has experienced boot compatibility > issues > >> with Potato and XP in a multi-drive, multi-boot system. > >I have a Dual boot testing/XP system at home. both my boot partitions > >are on the first disk. I have grub installed in the boot sector of my > >linux root partition, and use the standard XP/NT MBR, and have the > >active flag set to boot my debian partition first. > > AFAIK the secret is to choose a Bootloader which can understand NTFS > partitions and boot them. The LILO that comes with Potato can't > (from memory). Niether could CHOS ( I haven't updated it in a while, > I swap my NT disk in and out)
No, there is no secret. The NT partition will contain a valid bootsector which can then continue and chain the NT kernel. LILO, Grub and CHOS, XOSL, etc, all support chain-booting, and can use this method to boot NT, as long as you install that bootloader itself somewhere fairly safe. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
