Actually I wasn't refering to dual booting. What I'd like is an icon on my windows desktop that I can double click to boot into linux. I used to be able to do this with loadlin, but that doesn't seem to work with big kernels, and linld also seems broken.
Michael Holt wrote: >Thursday... Joseph Wang ran for the door shrieking: > >>Hi, >> >>Wondering if anyone has been able to boot to linux from windows with >>the recent mandrake kernels? Loadlin doesn't seem to work because the >>kernels are too big, and there is another booter linld which I haven't >>gotten to work. >> >>any suggestions? >> > >You can use the nt loader to boot linux, is that what you're talking >about? >If so, do this: >install lilo to your /boot partition - say /dev/hda6 just for kicks. >Now do dd if=/dev/hda6 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 >Now mv bootsect.lnx to your windows boot partition - C? >Append the following to the bottom of your boot.ini: >c:\bootsect.lnx="Mandrake the best OS in the world - why am I dual >booting?" > >You should be able to select linux from the boot menu now. > >Mike >
