Triple boot FC3 intallation question

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Wed Jan 26 17:41:33 UTC 2005


I suggested:
> Or if you add something like these two stanzas to /boot/grub/grub.conf,
> you should be able to boot all three OSes from grub. [1]
> 
> title Windows 2000
>        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>        chainloader +1
> title Windows ME
>        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>        chainloader /bootsect.dos

Bob Brennan wrote:
> When I installed Win2k alongside ME many moons ago I did let the Win2k
> installer do it's stuff, choosing not to upgrade ME but keep it as a
> 2nd OS. The result is ME in a C:Windows\ folder and Win2k in C:WINNT\
> but all else shared. I assume there is only the one partition for both
> but will confirm that tonight when I Partition-Magic some empty space
> for FC3 to do its thing.
> 
> Do the above grub.conf modifications apply if I verify there is
> currently only one DOS partition?

Should do. You should find that Fedora puts the Windows 2000 option
there anyway.

> Also - when I Partition-Magic I will create a vfat virtual partition
> (as I have done successfully in past for clean DOS/Linux file
> sharing), will that affect the grub.conf lines?

Shouldn't do: that's what I've got set up.

James.

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