Re: dual boot win2k as boot loader
Hi
I would just install debian, and configure lilo in MBR on hda. That would
not destroy windoze bootloader, just take controll over it:)
If you later want's to remove debian and lilo, you can just boot up with a
win98 boot/startupdisk and run "fdisk /mbr".
That's it.
Good Luck
/ernst
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Quenten Griffith wrote:
> Hello all I am setting up a dual boot machine for a friend of mine who
> wants to give Linux a go, he has to 20 gig hard drives hda being where
> win2k resides, and hdb is broken up to two 10 gig partions. hdb1 being
> swap hdb3 being / on the first 9gig. The other 10gig is fat32 for
> storage space in windows. He does not want to lose the win2k boot
> loader just in case he doesn't like linux, that way he can remove linux
> with out messing up his MBR on hda. So I installed Debian and told Lilo
> to go on hdb3 and to write a MBR to hdb then I boot into it with the
> boot floppy and do a dd if=/devhdb of=/tmp/debian.bin bs=512 count=1 and
> then I take the .bin file and boot into windows and place it in the c:\
> and edit boot.ini accordinly. After that I boot up and select debian
> and I get a black screen with MBR=FA3 or something along that lines and
> I can't do anything. So I then tried the same dd statement but used
> /dev/hdb3 and I get a screen full of 0 and 1's when I try to boot of
> that bin. Do I need to make a sepreate boot partition on /dev/hdb for
> Debian and then do the dd statment with the boot partion? I want ot
> make sure I get it right next time so that he won't give up on Linux.
> Thanks all.
>
>
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