"Abhay Watwe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard > drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I > installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. The machine > does not have a floppy drive, so I rebooted and used the Debian CD to boot > into linux in rescue mode. Then I used the following command to create a > linux.bin file [and more on trying to make the NT bootloader work]
Both of the standard x86 Linux bootloaders, LILO and GRUB, support "chain loading" non-free operating systems; I've had excellent luck using GRUB to boot other operating systems (it's just for the games, honest!). GRUB in particular is a very capable bootloader; it understands filesystems, so you don't need to reinstall it if you install a new kernel, and you can do some amount of recovery work from the bootloader prompt if your system winds up hosed. >From /boot/grub/grub.conf: title That thing on /dev/hda1 rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]