dual boot problem

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Guillermo Garron wrote:

> 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.

My trick for dual boot is to write GRUB into the boot sector of /boot. 
You need to use fdisk then to make the /boot partition active (don't use 
the Win2K disk utility!) before Linux will boot, but after that, you can 
reinstall Linux and Win2K to your heart's content.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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