Re: dual boot win2k as boot loader

[Quenten Griffith <qgriffith@edm1.com>]

Well that is good to know that lilo can and backs up the org. MBR, but 
basically there seems no way to boot Debian with the WIN2k Boot loader. 
I don't have a problem with that but my friend may be leary.

Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

> Hi Gents,
>
> On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 the mental interface of ernst told:
>
>  
>
> > 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.
> >    
>
> Quenten is using W2K. There you have to boot the W2K CD in repair
> modus and run fixmbr!
>
> A better way is to restore the mbr within debian. In /etc/boot there
> is a boot.0300. This is the backup mbr written by lilo the first
> time installing lilo in /dev/hda. Running lilo -u /dev/hda (in that
> case) will restore the mbr of w2k. After that linux can only be
> booted via fd or cd and w2k is using the the internal bootloader!
>
> [...]
>
> HTH
>
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