| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 12934 | 2001-11-15 21:40:00 | Dual Booting Linux and Windows 2000 | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 24610 | 2001-11-15 21:40:00 | I am slowly getting around to installing Mandrake 8.1 on a second 20gb drive in my PC. The first drive has Windows 2000 Pro. SP2 installed. I was reading 'Linux Desk Reference' (the first edition, published 2000) which states '..if you are using Windows NT or OS/2 you may be forced to install LILO somewhere other than than the Master Boot Record as these operating systems demand total control of the MBR'. I need to know if this applies to Win 2000 as well (being 'built on NT technology'), in which case I will install LILO to the boot partition of my second drive and do a bit of tweaking. Anyone with any advice/experience here? Thanks hugely! | Guest (0) | ||
| 24611 | 2001-11-15 23:02:00 | One way to do it that pop to mind is to change the master/slave jumpers on your drives. Make the Linux drive the master, this will then boot you into lilo and you can go to linux or win2k from there. |
Guest (0) | ||
| 24612 | 2001-11-16 00:12:00 | I dual-boot Win2K & Linux on one of my machines. I use the Windows Boot Menu. It's a little fiddly to set up, but not something you need to change too often. Check out www.linuxgazette.com for a write-up. Read carefully. |
Guest (0) | ||
| 24613 | 2001-11-16 10:17:00 | I am running Win95, Win2000 and Red Hat Linux on the one box. I installed them in that order. Am using Lilo in the MBR. If choosing windows it then passes on to ntldr and it all works nicely. |
Guest (0) | ||
| 24614 | 2001-11-17 03:37:00 | You should be OK with LILO ... the problems are with NT3.51 and its later versions, which took over the drive in an attempt to have 'some' security. OS/2 was not as bad.(I think I had OS/2 and Linux running with LILO -- it was a few years ago). At the 'worst', you won't be able to boot to W2k. If that happens and it is a problem(:<)), you might have to go in and do 'lilo -u' to restore the MBR, and try something else. I find loadlin.exe works nicely to start Linux from DOS. It just needs the kernel on a DOS partition. | Guest (0) | ||
| 24615 | 2001-11-18 06:08:00 | Thanks for your advice everyone. I ultimately ended up installing LILO in the /boot partition (hdb1) of my second drive, copying the first 512 bytes of this to a file which I then transferred to the root of my Windows installation. Finally I appended a line to the boot.ini file so I could use the Win2000 boot loader to choose between the 2 OS's. | Guest (0) | ||
| 1 | |||||