RE: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

From: Abhay Watwe (abhay_at_cox.net)
Date: 12/31/03

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    To: "'Mark Pictor'" <mpictor@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:20:40 -0700

    Mark:

    Thanks for recommending bootpart. I used it successfully and it did the
    trick. It also indicated that I needed to use the LBA flag in order to
    get dual boot working. I can now successfully boot into linux using my
    XP boot loader.

    Thanks to all who sent in comments and suggestions.

    Regards,

    Abhay

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Mark Pictor [mailto:mpictor@yahoo.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 8:40 PM
    To: abhay@cox.net
    Subject: RE:XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

    (I don't subscribe to debian-user yet, I just happened
    to be browsing the archive, and saw this...)

    There's two things I would suggest if you don't want
    to replace the XP bootloader:

    1) install LILO or GRUB on /dev/hdb. Go into the
    BIOS, and tell it to try booting that disk first. You
    can configure that bootloader to include Windows XP,
    and if it gets messed up, just go into the BIOS and
    reset it to boot the first hard disk.

    2) There's a program called bootpart
    (http://winimage.com/bootpart.htm) which will add
    entries to boot.ini, as well as creating the
    corresponding boot-block image. It's nice, though I
    haven't used it much. (I already had loadlin set up
    under Win98, so now it's just a 2nd-level menu)

    I am not sure, but bootpart may only work from dos, or
    require C: to be FAT, or something... but it is
    definitely worth a try.

    Good luck
    Mark

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