On Friday 05 September 2003 01:26 pm, ed tharp wrote: > when I installed w2k the (only) last 3 times, it did not mess with lilo, > just added it's boot loader to the windows selection of lilo. I was > hoping for the same result again.
I am surprised but have never shared that experience. The 3 times that I have installed Windows after I had installed Linux (all WinXp and I am VERY ashamed to admit having done so), lilo was always wiped out completely and replaced by nt bootloader. If W2000 doesn't do this, it's news to me. In fact, there is a detailed howto that explains how to create a dual boot system with Linux and Windows that uses the Windows bootloader that involves installation to a second partition, using a boot floppy to boot Linux, making a copy of the boot image, putting it on the C: drive and rigging boot.ini to see it as a boot option. I have not done this myself as Lilo is more convenient and supports Win, but others have. In fact, at least on one machine that I have tried this with, if you rig the BIOS to boot from the hd first and put the Mandrake Linux boot cd in the drive and then try to boot into WinXP, XP locks hard and refuses to boot. I can duplicate that one at will on my machine at home. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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