On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 08:07:01PM -0500, Mauriat Miranda wrote:
On 2/26/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> >> Some people dual-booting with Windows find it easier to keep Linux
> >> completely on its own drive (bootloaders, and all), and put an entry
> >> into the NT loader file so that the Windows boot menu gives you the
> >> options of which drive to boot from.
> The boot.ini file (if I've remembered the correct file) in the Windows
> C:/ drive is read just before Windows boots up. In it are entries for
> what windows will boot up. If you can understand how to refer to the
> right drive and partition, you can add an entry for your Linux drive.
Correct. I'd recommend the following:
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html
Mauriat
Using the Windows boot loader is the old way from Lilo days. There is
not problem double booting FC4 with Windows (XP or 2000) using grub. I
have done this on three of my machines. But the grub must be applied
after the Windows is installed.
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