You can use XP's bootloader to load linux, I've heard it puported.. But I've never been successful at it. (the one time I've tried it.. :-P) It takes a lot of trickery with imaging the /boot partition and referencing that image in boot.ini... I find it much easier to use GRUB as the bootloader.
I don't know if you'll need to mess with boot.ini or not. You might want to just leave it as-is to begin with and see what happens. My hunch is that you may need to change any references to disk(0) to disk(1).. If leaving it as-is renders XP unbootable, you can just switch it back to master, boot into XP, and make the necessary adjustments. Note: The above advice amounts to little more than a semi-educated guess. I'd love for someone else to pipe up and yea/nay it. :-) Cheers and happy dual-booting, ~Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Dean Price > Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 8:10 PM > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Dual Booting > > > Dang, posted as the wrong email address again... > > Thanks for the post, At this time I am hoping to put the xp drive as > slave, why, don't really know... I just feel better putting the newer, > bigger drive as master... but just wanted to make sure I didn't have to > mess with the boot.ini file on the xp drive since it will be moving? > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
