Hi, I suggest grub.. On my drive one there is win 98 - mdk 9.2 - fedora - suse 9.0. On my drive two there is win xp home. Grub handles this effortlessly.
I even experimented with to two win systems (up to 3 win systems can be handled) on same drive - that worked fine with the hide/unhide option. This is all in the grub howto.. etc. grub need some close study and I feel sure it can be done. Johan ******************* On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 20:17:49 +0000 Robert Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 .. still learning May this be a good day for learning
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