Use the bootloader that comes with Mandrake, GRUB it think it's called. I've
tried several bootloaders in my time ranging from, by hand (a real pain to
boot a system by hand believe me, flip switches then press buttons, repeat
for about fifteen minuets), punch card with HASP, tape, BOOT (IBM 360), Boot
Magic, System Commander, LILO and several others you probably haven't heard
of. GRUB comes out as the best of the bunch. Now for booting Linux from
Windows, go with loadlin.
I run the Promise Ultra ATA 66 card. My hard drives are on the tertiary
controller. The primary and secondary controllers are on the normal
motherboard (mine is max ATA 2), tertiary and quartinary controllers are
currently on add-in boards. I have no drives on my primary controller, a CD
burner on my secondary controller and a Western Digital 205AA (20GB ATA 4)
drive as master with a Western Digital AC32200L (3GB ATA 2) as slave on my
tertiary controller, the quartinary controller is empty currently. The 205AA
has my Windoze, RH and Mandrake partitions with one open partition and one
swap partition, the WD32200L has my three swap partitions; two are used by
RH and ML, one is unused, and an small (2.5 GB) open partition on it. So far
everything except RH works fine and I'm just taking a break from fixing the
RH install now.
Now, with NT, I do believe you'll have to use the NT boot program or NT has
a hissy fit and decides it won't work. Typical of products from a company
owned by someone who has a hissy fit when he can't have his own way. 8=) Or
when he can't buy his own way.
I don't know about most people, but I have three versions of Linux. I have
Red Hat 7.0 and Mandrake 7.2 in what I call the mutable versions. Both these
boot up with GRUB just fine from my hard disk and each is in it's own
partition on a hard disk that it shares with Windoze. Then I have Demolinux
which is an inmutable version. What do I mean by that? Well, it's a runable
Linux system on a CD-ROM disk. If you "Anchor" it to your Windoze partition,
you can save your settings from run to run, compile programs to work with it
(Demolinux is based on Debian Linux) and pretty much do what you want with
it. Drawbacks are that it is _slow_ in comparison to a full install and that
if anything happens to your Windoze partition you can lose all your work.
Just remember, read everything and YMMV.
James.
- Original Message -
From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 6:32 PM
Subject: [newbie] Do you have Linux installed on separate partition or
drive?
Hi everybody,
For specific reasons beyond my control, I still require Windows NT for
certain applications.
However, I prefer to work in a Linux environment.
Do most people have Linux installed on a separate drive or partition?
Is there a Linux boot loader that will acknowledge the second drive?
Any thoughts?
Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
