Adding Windows 2000 into a dual-boot after the fact?

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Preston Crawford [mailto:me at prestoncrawford.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 5:59 AM
----- Original Message -----
> From: Shawn Iverson
> Sent: 1/27/2004 2:43:24 PM
> > If by chance grub isn't happy with W2K (I know I had 
> trouble with RH9), you
> > can use the W2K bootloader to book Linux by doing the following:
> > 
> > If your linux boot partition is /dev/hda1:
> > 
> > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=boot.lin bs=512 count=1
> > 
> > Copy the boot.lin onto the root of the W2K partition, using 
> a floppy or some
> > other means.
> > 
> > Edit your boot.ini and add the following under [boot loader]:
> > 
> > c:\boot.lin="Fedora"
> > 
> > I believe that there is a howto out there on the details of 
> how to do this.
> 
> I've done this before. In this scenario you'd make Fedora the 
> slave, though, right? I mean, I'd take the drive that already 
> has Fedora and make it the slave to the Win2k drive. Would 
> this cause any problems with the Linux install?

Nope.. No Problems for that at all.

I just *nearly* hosed my OtherHalf's XP system last night with a FC1 install

cause I put grub in the MBR. Lucky for me, I just had to do a fixmbr in 
the recovery console.

Anyway, I now know how to use Grub to boot Win2K/XP and use Win2k/XP loader
to 
boot grub and into FC1.

Cool..