Re: Booting Linux from windows 2000
I don't know if you've found a suitable answer for this yet or not, but I
have done what you ask about in the subject line. You use dd to make a copy
of the boot sector for the linux partition, you drop in the root directory
of the C: drive and then edit boot.ini to include that file. Then it works
just fine. The only pain about this setup is that anytime you change your
linux boot sector (at least with lilo) you have to use dd again to create
your boot sector file again and then copy that into the root on the c: drive
again so that the changes are reflected. If you would like an example of
the boot.ini entry you would need, let me know I might be able to dig one up
on one my systems.
vec
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan E Norman" <nnorman@incanus.net>
To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: Booting Linux from windows 2000
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 02:39:33AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 14:18, Pigeon wrote:
> > > It is true that Windoze doesn't like changes to the MBR. To hack the
> > > Win98 MBR I had to include code to put the original MBR back after the
> > > hack had done its work, then make Windoze reinstall the hacked version
> > > after it had done its check. That relied on having DOS available
> > > underneath and probably would be much harder in 2k. It's not something
> > > I would really recommend!
> >
> > No, Windows 95/98/ME all do just fine without the MBR. You can have lilo
> > or grub steal it and windows wont even figure it out. Now Windows
> > NT/2000/XP all need the MBR and wont boot without it. Under these you
> > have to use the windows boot loader to load grub or lilo then they
> > continue to boot linux. Best way is probably to make a grub boot floppy
> > though.
>
> Not true. Win2k boots fine from grub, which is installed in the MBR
> here.
>
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