win98, 2000, linux 7.2

[Mark25]

ive got win2000 which is fat 32, win98 fat 32, and linux mandrake 7.2 all on seperate harddrives and all running on ata 66 channels. is there any way to set up nt bootloader to give me the option of booting any of the three? I havent tried Grub yet. would this work? Any other ways to get it to work?
thanks
mark

[drdeathgnj]

I am a Newbie to this whole Linux thing but I do know "SYSTEM COMMANDER" will do what you want.
I am not sure on the Linux "GRUB" thing.

[Gweedo]

Grub or LILO will do what you want.

I use grub as a bootloader. I use it to boot into linux or Win 2000 without any problems.



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[ndogg]

Ok, you could use LILO, but remember that you want to boot 2000's bootloader (I'm assuming that it's a lot like NT4.0's bootloader) to boot the two different Windows OSes and remember that it will be on the first of the two partitions (in something like a secondary MBR). I and my friend couldn't figure this out when we reinstalled NT4.0 (we finally realized NT put it at the beginng of the Win98 fat partition, not on the NTFS partition as we had thought).

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[FoBoT]

Originally posted by drdeathgnj:
..."SYSTEM COMMANDER" will do what you want.

this what i did
have 3 O/S's on my current desktop
msdos 6.22
w2k
mandrake 7.2

i had a laptop at my old job with
msdos 6.22
win95
win98
w2k

but of course i bought SC back in '95, nobody likes to pay $$$ but it does work

[Coral Sea]

I have a triple-boot system as you describe except that all three OSes are on the same HD. I use GRUB to select either Mandy or Windows. If Windows, then the NT boot loader is invoked from where I select either 98 or 2000. I could probably dispense with the NT boot loader and boot either Windows OS from GRUB but I'm too lazy to reconfigure things.

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[Mark25]

thanks guys thats what i wanted to know http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[njcajun]

next time you do this kind of setup, keep in mind that you may want to make everything FAT16, so all of the different OSs can access files on all the others. It's the only fs type all three can mount.

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[ScRapZ_1]

Guys! If I read the question right, he wanted to get Linux in the NT boot loader... dammit there IS a way and I will tell you.

Triple booting, egh...

...anyway, step by step instructions:

1) Boot up Linux the way you normally would

2) Install LILO where the / directory lives (mine for example hdb5)

3) Configure LILO so the damn thing doesnt pop up with the prompt when you finally get the thing in the NT boot loader, unless you want the prompt

4) Run /sbin/lilo

5) Mount your Windows 98 partition (eg: /mnt/hda1)

6) (Do this right or pay the ultimate price)
Bring up a terminal window and type:

dd if=/dev/hdb5 of=/mnt/hda1/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1

where /dev/hdb5 is where you installed LILO in step 2, and where /mnt/hda1 is where you mounted your win98 partition. PUHLEEZE do this EXACTLY as typed here, I lost my win98 partition trying this for the first time!

7) Restart and boot up into Win98

8) run command.com and type:

fdisk /mbr

9) Edit the boot.ini file in C:/ to read this:

C:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"

10) Reboot and see your hardwork in action.

DISCLAIMER: This information is provided "as is" and neither I nor any of my "friends" will hold ANY responsiblity blah blah blah...

This took me ages to figure out, so I hope you appreciate it :P

TTFN,
ScRapZ_1 :)