On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 13:47, Bryan Phinney wrote: > 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. maybe the fact that winme was first installed, then additional linux partitions then the install of win2k.
/dev/hda7 7.1G 2.9G 3.9G 43% / /dev/hdc5 4.9G 2.2G 2.7G 46% /home /dev/hda4 4.3G 2.4G 1.9G 57% /mnt/nt /dev/hda1 28G 17G 12G 61% /mnt/win_c /dev/hdc6 4.7G 2.2G 2.6G 46% /mnt/win_c2 /dev/hda6 8.6G 1.4G 7.3G 16% /mnt/win_d /dev/hda8 2.8G 1.1G 1.7G 39% /var > 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 can understand that, but I want to (and have for some long time) use lilo to boot different kernels and windows is a single choice, and that loads the windows boot loader, where I chose between winME and win2k. I wonder if fixboot might be more what I want than fixmbr. since the mbr is fine and points to lilo. do you know what fixboot does? > 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. that is a new one on me. I would only guess what is 'really' happening in the autostart feature on the CDrom are tying up resources (irq and dma) while XP wants those same resources. I know I do not have any such problem. but w2k, not XP. -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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