Windows2000-Linux Dual Boot

[sym]

Does anyone have experience dual booting Win2K and Linux? That is the configuration I want to try, and I have seen several possible ways of doing a dual boot (i.e. Loadlin, LILO, WindowsNT Loader,...), and I was wondering what was the best/easiest way of doing it.

[mjb0314]

Follow the instructions at this site. It was written for caldera, but it should work for any distribution. http://www.calderasystems.com/SxS/ntboot.htm

[FoBoT]

i have only gotten it to work using system commander, but then i suck http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif

i tried redoing my box the last few nights, using the boot manager included with ranish partion manager ( http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ )
and lost w2k after i loaded suse 7 last night (but i still have my windows 3.1/dos 6.22 partition http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/eek.gif )

my next adventure will be to try using http://www.xosl.org/ for the bootloader

i have read the NHF for loadlin, it sounds good, if xosl doens't work, i will try loadlin ( http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/osbooting/loadlin.html )

good luck and let us know what works! http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif or doesn't http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif



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FoBoT
Fixer Of Broken Things
Use the right tool for the right job!

[spickus]

I just use LILO. Works great and easier than using Win2K's bootloader.



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[Tiger]

Here's a link to Slackware's book and the Dual Boot section. LILO does work great if you can meet the limitations, specifically, installing LILO on the MBR, /boot completely below cylinder 1024 of the primary drive, about 8.4 Gig on todays big drives.

Dual Boot (http://www.slackware.com/book/index.php?source=x1776.html).

Just scroll down to the part about using the NT bootloader.


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[This message has been edited by Tiger (edited 01 February 2001).]

[tylerdurden]

Originally posted by spickus:
I just use LILO. Works great and easier than using Win2K's bootloader.


i am using mandrake 7. LILO doesnt give win2k as an option. any ideas anyone?