Dual boot question...

[Craig White]

Maybe it's my backwards personality but I would always expect to install
NT/Win2K first, then linux and lilo should recognize and offer the choice of
either at bootup. However Tara's method makes a lot of sense if you  have to
re-install Windows ;-)

I would generally discourage dual-boot systems - my preference is to use a
'KVM' switch and have two boxes, one monitor, one keyboard, and one mouse.
This still doesn't solve the issue of needing to have a separate set of
speakers for each box unless you've decided that sound is pointless on
Windows ;-)

Craig

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Tara
> Johnson
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 10:21 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Dual boot question...
>
>
> At 09:53 PM 7/23/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >"Lynn P. Tilby" wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a box with 2 scsi hd's.  I want to load NT on the
> non-root drive and
> >> make it a dual boot system without reinstalling my RedHat
> system.  What is
> >> the best way to go about doing this?
> >
>
> Hi Lynn,
>
> The first thing to do is to re-install LILO to run off of the
> superblock of
> the linux partition.  Also be sure to make a LILO boot disk so
> that you can
> get back into linux after you've installed NT
>
> Install NT on your system on your other drive.  when you are done
> installing NT, then load up linux using your bootdisk
>
> mount the NT hard drive in linux.  This is the command to use,
> assuming you
> have mounted NT's C: to /mnt/nt/ and linux is installed on /dev/sdb:
>
> as root type in,
>
> dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/mnt/nt/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1
>
> reboot your computer into NT
> open up c:\boot.ini with notepad (this is a hidden system file)
>
> at the bottom of the file, add something like:
>
> c:\boot.lnx="Load Linux"
>
> then just reboot, and you should be able to pick "Load Linux" from the
> dropdown list, and have it load up.  Just be sure to run dd again if you
> change your LILO configuration.
>
> good luck,
> Tara
>
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