you have to put /boot on /dev/hda, I put my in the first 150mb of my hard disk and then I created a Partition for Windows XP about 5gb and then the rest is for Linux
/ /home /var /swap /tmp etc... and then I use LILO as my boot manager. Also make sure you use FDISK to make the 150mb partition active or else LILO won't load. At least this is what I had to do. As for editing the boot.ini As 'root', edit '/etc/lilo.conf': the first line of lilo.conf reads boot=hda, change the 'hda' to where ever the '/boot' partition is located (find out with mount). Run lilo Make a copy of the new boot sector with dd if=/dev/hda[x] bs=512 count=1 of=linux.lnx Note: 'hda[x]' is whatever the '/boot' partition is. Copy linux.lnx to the windows 'C: drive' cp linux.lnx /mnt/windows_c Modify the 'boot.ini' on the 'C: drive' by appending a line for Mandrake pointing to the location of the copied LILO boot sector: [boot loader] timeout=5 default=C:\ [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro" /fastdetect C:\= "Microsoft Windows 98se" C:\Linux.lnx="Mandrake 8.0" Reboot. Login to Win98SE. Open a command line window and run: fdisk /mbr to restore the Windows boot sector. -----Original Message----- From: Norman Zhang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 3:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] dual boot with XP Hi, I am trying to dual boot Linux Mandrake 8.2 with XP. XP runs on the primary disk, and LM 8.2 runs on the secondary disk. They are both on the IDE slot 1. I put LILO on hdb. Would someone please tell me how I can edit boot.ini to make it boot for both OS? Regards, Norman
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