[luau] Help With Dual Boot Install

[Eric Hattemer]

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" <susan at cloud10.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
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"
> > ==============================
>
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