dual boot problem

Guillermo Garron guillermo.fedora at gmail.com
Sun Jul 23 14:29:21 UTC 2006


On 7/21/06, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:
> well I am not expert in the boot loaders but I went through similar
> problem before in Redhat 9 days.
>
> It has something to do with Windows 2000/NT because windows 2000 MBR
> and Grub is not compatible unlike Windows 98/me/xp, where grub can
> chain load other operating systems. Whichever you install first,
> windows 2000 will overwrite the MBR. If you plan to use both Windows
> 2000 and Linux, you have to use third party boot loader (I guess
> commercial ones). Since its been long time I forgot which boot loaders
> are avilable out there. You can search the goole for available tools.
hi, you can use this
http://gag.sourceforge.net/
and it is free! it is great, you can use it on a diskette, or write
into MBR, you can reconfigure it as many times as you like and support
a lot of disks and operating systems.
regards,
Guillermo.




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