[luau] Help With Dual Boot Install

[S Chouinard]

> 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"
> ==============================