On 11/7/02 7:05 PM, "W. Wayne Liauh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks. I think you just answered the first part of my question, in > that I should be able to install WinXP Pro in any of the three primary > partitions. If this is not correct, please let me know. > > (It should be noted that although textbooks say that there are "four" > primary partitions, since the fourth one will be used to create extended > partitions, there are only three primary partitions in which to install > a bootable partition. Also, since Win98 does not use MBR, I am pretty > sure that you must install Win98 in the first primary partition, unless > you install a multiple booting tool first, such as Norton something.) > > The second part of my question, which I did not ask, is that, if I > install WinXP "after" Linux, do I need to do anything? With Win98, if > installed after Linux, it will wipe out the content of MBR. When that > happened, you need to use a bootable floppy or CD, chroot, then reload LILO. > > Thus, I am rephrasing my question: can I reserve a space for WinXP > (which will be below the 1012nd cylinder, or roughly 8GB), then install > it after everything is done? > > > Eric Hattemer wrote: > >> I am thoroughly confused at this email. First, when you say "dual >> booting", are you refering to two versions of Windows? If not, then >> there is almost no order required. You get 4 primary partitions on your >> system (make sure you partition with win > NT or linux). The first >> sector of your disk is the MBR, and points to the first sector of the >> partition which will be booted. This can be any of the 4 primary >> partitions. There are rules like that the start of that partition >> cannot be over 8GB, and that it can't be an extended partition, but I >> believe both of those rules can be cicumvented in most modern >> situations. >> >> When you install lilo to the MBR, it is the first thing that comes up >> when your system is booted. It then selects which of those partitions >> will be booted. For linux it automatically starts reading the kernel >> and etc. For windows, it does a thing called chain loading, where it >> starts the windows partition boot sector, and then windows starts >> loading its own kernel. Sometimes people in linux create a boot >> partition, which holds the kernel and whatnot. This is especially >> useful for software raid or odd root filesystems that can't easily be >> booted from lilo. You might want to put that at the beginning of the >> disk, but it really shouldn't matter. It should be below 8GB, but other >> than that, it can go wherever. Generally the windows partition should >> start under the 8GB mark. But like I said earlier, I'm almost sure that >> doesn't matter even in win98. >> >> Now if you're depending on the windows bootloader in boot.ini, then >> that's probably a different story. However, its a story that I know >> little about. As long as you have linux on the system, you should >> probably use lilo or grub. If not, you still might consider it or >> another 3rd party boot loader. If you are using windows boot loader, >> then I believe the NT-style OS should be first, but I could be wrong. >> >> -Eric Hattemer >> >> On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 12:34, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >> >> >>> When dual-booting with Win98, of course, Windows must be in the first >>> partition. However, I remember this (i.e., the Windows be in the first >>> partition) is not necessary with Win2000. >>> >>> Does anyone know whether I can put WinXP Pro in a non-first partition? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> LUAU mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LUAU mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau Windows will generally try to install its own bootloader NTLDR in the MBR, NT and 2k does so I expect XP would do so as well.