dual boot mandrake 7.2 and win2k

[dvdnut]

I have found the part about how to add the partition info into boot.ini

BUT it states that lilo needs to be on the linux partition not the mbr, but i cannot work out how to do this?

any help

btw linux is on hda5

thanks in advance

dvdnut.

[Wolfman_Jack_55]

Yeah thats what I am also wanting to do. Although what lines of code do you add to the boot.ini file?

[wtsamatta]

If you have doze and *nix on 2 separate hdds<the best way IMHO> you want to install lilo on the mbr. When you config lilo during the install<I used grub in drake7.2, it looks better :D > you will need to add, other os, in the label part name it<I use win> then for the image use /dev/hda and u should be all set. When you boot u will get a nice graphical interface<grub that is> and u can use the up and down arrows to choose what os u want. You don't need to modify anything in windows.

[SUOrangeman]

However, my personal favorite loader is the NT Loader. You just need to add Linux to that menu.

To do so, you need to install LILO on /boot or / from within linux. If your Linux install is on /dev/hda5, then you need to make sure that the /etc/lilo.conf file states /dev/hda5 as the boot device (likely the first line of the file). Run 'lilo' to make sure everything is in place.

Then, from the Windows side of the world, grab a copy of bootpart from www.winimage.com. (http://www.winimage.com.) Open up a DOS window and run bootpart. After 30 seconds of thinking about it, you'l figure out what parameters you need to run bootpart so that it adds Linux to your NT Loader menu.

For the record, if Win2K is the only OS on your system, you probably don't ever see the boot loader even though it is there.

-SUO

[dvdnut]

HEY I DID IT!!!!
all you need to do is not to install a boot loader on the root partition

i did by mistake and had to fdisk /mbr to get access back into windows

this is how i did it from then on

within drakconf configure the boot loader to work off the partition of linux and minimize the time before selecting to whatever you want.

i felt that this didnt configure it right, and when i checked linuxconf, it didnt have a root partition set, so i set it to the linux partition

then i followed the nhf on dual booting which was as root

#dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/tmp/linux.bin bs=512 count=1

the hda5 is mine, so change to your linux part of the hard drive.

go into the tmp dir, then copy to a mounted partition from windows if you have it.

once that is done boot into windows and edit the boot.ini file in the root or c and include the following

c:\linux.bin="Linux"
this is done after the last line of the other os in the file.

save, and make sure before you reboot that the .bin file you copied is now shifted to the root of c as well.

jobs a good un

thanks