On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 4:59 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: > > Robert, mind if I piggyback on this question? I have a new AMD64 > laptop, and it came with XP Home (of course!) I want to put XP-64 > as well as Mandrake 32-bit and 64-bit. Can lilo or grub handle > copying files before starting to boot Windows versions? Here's the > rub: all versions of Windows derived from NT have two critical > startup files: ntldr and ntdetect.com. These are incompatible > between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions, so I need the boot > mechanism to copy in the right versions from backup directories > before kicking off the boot process. System Commander does this, > and I just learned the hard way that BootMagic (comes with > Partition Magic) does *not* <grrrrrrrrrrrrr>. Seeing as I have to > start all over, I thought I'd try doing it with grub. Thanks.
Greg, If I read your question right you want to quad boot your machine? That is an interesting idea :-) Might be difficult to manage booting into the 2 Windows partitions though. (Not sure really). I think you might have to move this question to the expert mailing list if you get stuck :-) It would be difficult for Lilo/Grub to see the windows files you refer to as the Windows partitions wouldn't be mounted by Linux at that point. Robert
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