Re: Booting Linux from windows 2000
On Thursday 07 November 2002 10:02 am, Levi Waldron wrote:
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> On November 7, 2002 11:49 am, Rob Weir wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:56:48PM +0100, Bruno BEAUFILS wrote:
> > > I know that this question is not specially relevant to debian, but I do
> > > not know where to ask it anywhere else :-(
> > >
> > > I want to boot a bunch of dual-boot stations which are running under
> > > Windows 2000 to Linux. I tried loadlin but it does not work because of
> > > protected mode.
> > >
> > > I can modify lilo boot loader since those stations are oftenly cloned
> > > by Ghost
>
> I've heard that win2k won't stand for LILO replacing its own MBR. The
> alternatives I know of are:
>
LILO dual-booting W2K and Linux works fine for me. I have LILO on the MBR,
/boot as the first partition, / as the second and Windows as the third.
- Derek
> 1) Put a boot floppy in when you want to boot Linux
> 2) Use XOSL http://www.xosl.org - a GPL universal bootloader that's
> compatible with linux and all wins.
> 3) I don't know if wintoes will stand for not being on the primary hard
> drive, but if it will then you could hook it up as secondary (something
> other than /dev/hdb) and let linux have your MBR.
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