Re: Booting linux without using boot manager

[Marcelo Coelho <mcoelho@student.dei.uc.pt>]

Thanks all you guys!! The boot part is resolved!! Tldp had an article about 
nt boot and mencioned a wonderful program (bootpart). Loadlin didn't work 
because win xp doesn't have dos.


Thanks




On 13 Apr 2003 21:30:46 -0400, Scott Henson <debian- 
list@silvercoin.dyndns.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 15:42, Marcelo Coelho wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > My pc has a buggy cd-rom and has no floppy (i shooted it out the window 
> > when i lost an entire week of work because of it) and i'm using xp (i'm 
> > a newbie in linux) which already has a boot manager. Anyone knows how to 
> > use that boot manager or booting linux from dos or from xp?

> For one, grub is quite capable of booting Windows XP, but if you want to
> boot linux from the Windows bootloader, this link should help. 
> Specifically the one on the NT-bootloader.
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/os.html#OSBOOT