Booting Linux from Linux

[Eric "Shubes"]

Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> 
> --- Victor Odhner <vodhner at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> From: Victor Odhner <vodhner at cox.net>
> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:48:28 -0700
> To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Subject: Booting Linux from Linux
> 
> I am about to install Kanotix rooted at /dev/hda6, with XP/ntfs on hda1 
> and fat32 on hda5.
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> I want this to have exactly zero impact on the boot sector, to begin 
> with.  So I will tell it to put grub on /dev/hda6, the root partition, 
> rather than on the boot segment.
> 
> At the moment, the floppy is not working on the box in question, so I 
> can't boot this installation in any of the normal ways.
> <SNIP>
> 
> Google on "Windows XP boot.ini".  XP can boot multiple OSs by editing this simple text file.  The MS Knowledgebase article is here.  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289022
> 
> Dennisk
> ---------------------------------------------------

I'd definitely go this route and tailor XP boot loader to load Linux 
(haven't seen that one done yet). Good find (or memory ;) ), Dennis.

FWIW, Fedora (and I presume CentOS) has a rescue option on the install 
disks which finds a linux partition and can boot to it. I don't know how 
well (if) it works across distros though, and I wouldn't want to use it 
regularly.
-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

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