On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Cedar Cox wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Eran Levy wrote:
> >
> >>No No. Im sorry. From my experience, knowledge and testings, I have got this:
> >>When I have installed NT loader after installing Linux, Linux showed up in
> >>the menu and I only had to choose it from the menu and press ENTER. Im not
> >>telling this because "I heard it from...". I tested this and thats what I
> >>have got.
> >>Again, Its not regarding to other windows versions 95/98. They overwrite
> >>your MBR and LILO is gone after installing them so I cant recommend this.
> >>
> What about when updating kernels? What do you need to update? I would
> also love to see the boot.ini that your computer created.
>
> Note that this only applies to installing Linux before NT.
boot.ini? Isn't this for the NT loader? The method I described uses LILO
for the main loader. NT only has to know about itself and therefore you
don't have to do anything in NT when you change kernels, etc..
I suppose if you wanted to you could install a different loader on each
partition and put options for the other in each of them and switch back
and forth between them during boot.. if you get really bored. Never tried
it though :)
> >
> >windows/dos have the MBR the way it wants to.. all you have to do after
> >you install windows (if you installed linux first) is go into fdisk and
> >set your linux root partition boot flag (and remove it from any other
> >partition). I've never had any problems with this method. Comments?
> >
> Actually, there are. If that's your approach, you'll find that you need
> to change active partition every time you want to switch Linux/windows.
nope. Just put the windows partition as an option in lilo... AFAIK
windows 9x is happy even if it's c: is not the active partition. NT may be
different but I don't know why...
-Cedar
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