Grub will boot a NTFS WIN2000 or XP partition. I found an example on the
parms for grub.conf with "man grub"
The NT boot loader will boot Linux. a quick search on google "NT linux
dual boot" should get you where you want to be.
Another great option (especially when you got 4 or more OS'es loaded) is
to use xosl (http://www.xosl.org/) A super nice GUI bootloader that can
handle any OS that boots on x86 hardware. To tickle my geek fancy, I
once loaded 15 different OS's on a single machine. They all loaded up
under XOSL
Solaris
Redhat
Suse
NetBSD
UnixWare
OpenServer
Windows98
Windows2000
BeOS
OS/2
(The following were emulated under linux)
Mac OS 8
Amiga OS
OS/390
VSE
VM
On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 10:58, David M. Vo wrote:
> Thanks Federico and Steve.
>
> What file format do you guys format you file system under? My is NTFS.
> Grub can pick up FAT but do not like NTFS.
>
> Federico, I assumed the 8mb partition you mentioned is in HDA(first drive)
> right.
> Also, do I need to format it in NTFS or Linux?
>
> Thanks guys
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of
> Federico Paini
> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 9:35 AM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] DUAL BOOT
>
>
> You have to use a utility called Bootpart, you can find it on the net, it
> modifies the boot.ini of win2k to add OSes to boot.
> Before that though, you have to create a small partition of about 6-8 Mb at
> the beginning of your HD and you format it exit with mount point /boot and
> install lilo or grub there.
> Then you add that partition with Bootpart and you have a full dual boot PC
> with w2k and Linux.
> It is a safe and fairly easy process, I did it tons of time.
>
> Hope helps,
> Federico
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of David
> M. Vo
> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 7:39 AM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: [SLUG] DUAL BOOT
>
>
> I had installed the WIN 2k on the HDA and RH 7.2 on HDB.
> WIN 2k format in NTFS, everytime I want to boot RH I have to boot it from
> the floppy disk.
> Is there anyway that I can use LILO or SCRUB to have the boot option
> installed on the MBR?
>
> Thanks
>
> -
>
>
-- Ryland Bingham Unix/Linux Specialist T3 Technologies-An IBM Premier Business Partner St. Petersburg, Florida
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