Win2k dual boot recovery help

Alan Dayley plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 01 Oct 2002 14:25:22 -0700


Thanks, again, Bart.

 From my Solved! message, you can see that I ended up with a solution that 
leaves GRUB on the MBR.  I will have to go read the articles you point out 
and see if their solution is the same as the one I found elsewhere.

Alan

At 02:01 PM 10/1/02 -0700, you wrote:
>I apologize for my ignorance. Newbies usually send overly-simplified
>questions and I mistook yours for one of them.
>
>I looked around a bit and found 2 articles that address the multi-boot of
>linux and WinNT/Win2k. One has a solution with grub on the MBR, the other
>uses the Windows OS loader. Neither require a re-installation of linux. I
>still don't understand why you feel a re-install is necessary. It should be
>possible to copy the boot loader from the MBR to the linux root partition
>without disturbing your install.
>
>The grub boot loader article:
>http://www.tux.org/~joel/grub.html
>The Windows OS loader article:
>http://www.mastincrosbie.com/mark/linux-ob6k/win2k.html
>
>Good luck,
>Bart