[TriLUG] Dual Booting

[Brian A. Henning]

You can use XP's bootloader to load linux, I've heard it puported..  But
I've never been successful at it.  (the one time I've tried it.. :-P)  It
takes a lot of trickery with imaging the /boot partition and referencing
that image in boot.ini...  I find it much easier to use GRUB as the
bootloader.

I don't know if you'll need to mess with boot.ini or not.  You might want to
just leave it as-is to begin with and see what happens.  My hunch is that
you may need to change any references to disk(0) to disk(1)..  If leaving it
as-is renders XP unbootable, you can just switch it back to master, boot
into XP, and make the necessary adjustments.

Note: The above advice amounts to little more than a semi-educated guess.
I'd love for someone else to pipe up and yea/nay it. :-)

Cheers and happy dual-booting,
~Brian



> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
> Behalf Of Dean Price
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 8:10 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Dual Booting
>
>
> Dang, posted as the wrong email address again...
>
> Thanks for the post, At this time I am hoping to put the xp drive as
> slave, why, don't really know... I just feel better putting the newer,
> bigger drive as master... but just wanted to make sure I didn't have to
> mess with the boot.ini file on the xp drive since it will be moving?
>