Re: LILO dualbooting Sid and XP
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:05:32AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I've been using the NT bootloader for as long as I've been using Debian
> to handle switching between my M$ OS's and Linux. However, since I've
> switched to using Debian 364 days a year, this is no longer working for
> me. My XP boot partition is NTFS. This means that any time I update my
> kernel or update LILO I have to reboot into XP so that I can copy my
> linux.bin to my boot drive. It's finally gotten to be enough of a hassle
> that I've decided to do something about it. My boot partition is hda1
> (NTFS), and my root partition is hda2 (ext3). Currently, my linux boot
> info is in /boot. What's the best way of going about using LILO as my
> bootloader instead of the NT bootloader while still having the option of
> booting into XP?
>
> -Alex
>
>
I left LILO for good and moved onto GRUB - I use it on my dual-booting
Debian / W2K. It will use a chain loader to boot W2K/XP.
Also, you don't have to do anything special every time you install a new
kernel since GRUB can read your filesystem, in effect it boots Linux
reading the /vmlinuz symlink.
There is a sample config file in the deb package - you should be up and
running in less than 10 minutes. I think there is also an article either
in Linux Gazette or Linux Journal on using GRUB - a search on Google
should bring it up.
-Andy
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