Re: Can I partition a disk and make it bootable for windows from linux?
Kent West wrote:
> Spongebob wrote:
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>>Is there any way to make grub delay a little? Windows is
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>>beyond the point where I can use the key (it's F5, I forget
>>what F8 does -- command line
>>maybe?) to enter safe mode really fast. I have about the time
>>of a fast mouse double-click to press F5 after hitting enter
>>in the grub menu.
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>>I'm using Win98. I don't seem to have boot.ini.
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> Whereas I couldn't find anything in the manual for grub that would do
> what you need, you can do it from the Windows side. Add something like
> this to your config.sys file in Windows98:
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> [menu]
> MENUITEM=dummy_entry,Windows 98
> MENUITEM=win98,Windows 98
> MENUDEFAULT=win98,5
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> [dummy_entry]
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> [win98]
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> [common]
> <rest of config.sys goes here>
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> Now the boot process of Windows98 should show a menu allowing you to
> choose "Windows 98" (the dummy entry) or "Windows 98"; it'll give you 5
> seconds before automatically booting into "Windows 98" (the non-dummy
> entry). If you manually choose either entry, it won't make a difference
> since it doesn't actually do anything.
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> Be aware it's been a long time since I've done this; I'm not certain of
> the syntax.
>
Do you really mean config.sys? That looks more like the syntax for
system.ini or win.ini.
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