On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:08:41PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > IIRC for my Windows 2k system, the Windows installation creates a bootsector > > on both the rootpartition _and_ the partition on which the /winnt directory > > is created. > > Unlike Debian, you don't have a choice :-( > > > > For older versions (95/98) I've had to recreate the bootsector. > > > > Note that for Windows NT/2k and maybe XP, the default installation is in > > /winnt, not /windows and I think you have the option of changing the name of > > While discussing earlier with Joshua, we ended with this set of > criteria: > > -if exist /io.sys, then partition is Win 9x/Me boot partition > -if exist /ntldr, then partition is WinNT/W2K/XP boot partition > > Seems pretty simple and does not depend on file names. *these* cannot > be changed
You probably need to check in that order as well since IIRC you can have 9x/Me and NT/2K/XP installed on the same partition if its FAT based. If both are installed the nt boot loader will allow the user to choose the 9x/Me OS itself (IIRC) so Debian won't have to worry about showing both. Chris
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