I believe that Win9x or ME will boot on any partition... but from my experience... I had to put windows NT 4.0 workstation on the hda or I could't boot from it....I assuming that would be the same for win2k
Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 1:14 PM Subject: Re: Lilo and Win2k > John Hughes wrote: > > >I am trying to get my dualboot machine to work properly. using Lilo, i can boot linux, which occupies > >/dev/hda > > > >When i tried to get it to boot Win2k, which occupies /dev/hdb, it came up with something about NTDLTR or something like that. How can i get it to boot win2k? > > > I'm not 100% sure, but I'm about 90% sure that Windows insists on > "owning" the first partition of the first drive for its boot files. What > this means is that I believe you'll have to reverse your setup, so that > W2K is on /dev/hda and Linux is on /dev/hdb. > > Perhaps someone else on this list can verify or deny this claim. > > Kent > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >