[luau] Help With Dual Boot Install

[Michael Ableyev]

> 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" <hattenator at imapmail.org>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
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" <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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