Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 01:06, David P James wrote:
> jani.pohjanraito@kuva.fi wrote:
> > I am still booting from floppy and it takes ages so I look for help:
> >
> > I have hda with win2k on it. Boots if no cd-rom or floppies in drives.
> >
> > And then there is the hdb with debian. Boots from floppy (loads the
> > kernel etcetc from floppy).
> >
> > So yes these are separate HD's.
> >
> > Now from previous experience I *know* that win2k is quite 'sensitive'
> > when it comes to booting. I tried boot manager called GAG earlier, but
> > managed on multiple attempts to lose the Master Boot Record to Win2k and
> > had to reinstall from backup images... So no luck.
> >
> > AFAIK lilo will also overwrite win2k boot manager in a way that will make
> > poor little win sulk and not ever be found again. So answer to any of the
> > three below will solve my problems, II. or III. being more robust I
> > suppose.
> >
> > I.
> > How do I make an boot disk for the hdb/debian so that it only boots from
> > the floppy, but loads kernel etc from HD?
> >
> > II.
> > Is there such a thing as relatively foolproof and simple way (aside from
> > BIOS ;) ) to install an boot manager that does not
> > touch/corrupt/overwrite the Win2k? Any links and experiences welcome.
Quote, "MCSE Windows 2000 Professional for Dummies."
Page 75. "Problems have been reported with the partitioning code that runs
as part of the Windows 2000 setup program. Therefore, only use the Windows
2000 Setup program to partition the volume onto which Windows 2000 is to be
installed. Use Windows 2000 Disk Management console (I've still found this
dodgy) to create or format other partitions, or use a third party
partitioning tool such as Partition Magic.
.......On a dual boot machine with Windows 9x, you may configure a Windows
2000 partition as NTFS, but the primary (boot) partition must be either Fat
or( inthe case of Windows 95osr2+ and Windows 98) FAT 32." Unquote.
If it's this much hassle with fat imagine the problems with ext2 or 3 ??
I've dual booted using lilo and Win 2000 and it was o.k. for a while then
after a few days seemingly randomly the boot menu dissapears and it loads the
old pre dual boot O/S.
I tried it with Win 98 and Win XP Professioal lately Win 98 exixting on one
disk and Win XP on another. It dual boots fine for a random number of days
then no go. It wipes all the boot O/S selection menu and defaults to Win98.
I'm about to try loading woody Debain 3.0 to dual boot with Win2K and will
use lilo and see what happens to Win2k. I thought I did this a while back and
had no problems but that may have been with XP Pro I'm not sure.
Good Luck:-)
>> >
> > III.
> > Now as I write this I started to wonder if it would be possible to
> > add the lead to linux boot record into windows BOOT.INI ? For win2k
> > boot.ini says:
> > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
> > Professional" /fastdetect Anyone ever try it 'the windows way'?
> >
> > Well any help much appreciated,
> >
> > Jani
>
> I'm not entirely sure if this is what you're looking for,
> but you might want to take a look at this grub multi-boot
> howto (the example system has all the OSs on the same hd,
> though that shouldn't really matter as you have win on the
> first hd).
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