Re: XP and Sarge Dual Boot....

[Charles Read <debianlist@charlesread.com>]

so  'bootpart n' is the partition where i tell boot.ini where my linux 
images are right?  I have had notorious bad luck with a seperate /boot 
partition so im wanting to only use 1 partition, so my layout will be:

/dev/hda1 Windows
/dev/hda2 Linux (all of it)
/dev/hda3 Swap

(im introducing linux to a Windows friend so im not looking to do 
anything fancy)

so how will i tell boot.ini exactly where my boot images are, like we 
normally do in grub or lilo?  and just to recap i DONT want to install 
grub (from the debian install) on the HD but i DO want to put it on 
/dev/hda2? if thats the case is calling the made file debian.mbr 
arbitrary?

I truly appreciate your help Mike! And everybody else cool enough to 
chime in!

Charles Read


On Feb 2, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Mike Smith wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mike Smith <mikeosmith@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:24:37 -0500
> Subject: Re: XP and Sarge Dual Boot....
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
>
> Bootpart edits a boot.ini.
>
> from the command line:
> bootpart /? will give you all the options. I normally just drop
> bootpart.exe at c:\
>
> C:\>bootpart /list
> Boot Partition 2.50 for WinNT/2K/XP (c)1995-2002 G. Vollant 
> (info@winimage.com)
> WEB : http://www.winimage.com and http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
> Add partition in the Windows NT/2000/XP Multi-boot loader
> Run "bootpart /?" for more information
>
> Physical number of disk 0 : 38000000
>  0 : C:* type=7  (HPFS/NTFS), size= 20482843 KB, Lba Pos=63
>  1 : C:  type=83  (Linux native), size= 97272 KB, Lba Pos=40966128
>  2 : C:  type=83  (Linux native), size= 8203104 KB, Lba Pos=41160672
>  3 : C:  type=82  (Linux swap), size= 519120 KB, Lba Pos=57566880
>
> This produces a list of partitions, 0 is Windows, 1 is my /boot 
> partition.
>
> bootpart 1 c:\debian.mbr "Debian Linux"
>
> creates a file (c:\debian.mbr) and adds it to the boot.ini list.
>
> When installing Debian take care NOT to install to the MBR, and
> install grub to /dev/hda2 (in this case).
>
> Have fun.