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well what i did now was to write the linux boot mbr to a floppy and copy it to the 2000 hard drive, then add an entry to boot.ini. the boot menu works, and shows both OS's, but when i select linux it just freezes up with a blinking cursor in the corner.
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you didn't actually think M$ was gonna let you boot another company's OS, did you?...

Just make a linux bootdisk, and boot win2k as normal, and whenever you want to run linux you just stick in the disk and boot the bitch up.

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PostIcon Posted on: Jun. 11 2001,20:47 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Or do what i did the first time i installed linux - burn everything i needed to CD and start over, baby!

then again with disk space so cheap these days you could get a different drive. Got each os on it's own drive now. Much better

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from my limited knowledge of linux and its booting behaviour, i don't think that what you've done is sufficient. my advice is get hold of loadlin, and read the documentation on how to install and use it. i think you just copy your linux boot image (vmlinuz or something like that) onto your win2k drive, and pass that to loadlin. what it does is basically loads your linux boot image from within dos, rather than from the linux boot-up. so you'd then edit your boot.ini to run loadlin with whatever parameters are required. of course, i could be talking absolute crap... i'm writing a bitch of an exam in a few hours, so my mind isn't functioning right now.
let me know if it works, so when i get around to installing redhat 7.1 i'll know what to do
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PostIcon Posted on: Jun. 14 2001,04:47 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
true, but unless you want to muck about with your bios boot device settings each time you want to switch OS's, you still need to install some sort of boot loader.
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PostIcon Posted on: Jun. 26 2001,06:24 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
http://thrish.dyn.ca/loadlin.html explains how to set up dual boot between win98 and linux... i guess you should be able to work from there
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PostIcon Posted on: Jun. 26 2001,23:08 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
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Originally posted by CatKnight:
well what i did now was to write the linux boot mbr to a floppy and copy it to the 2000 hard drive, then add an entry to boot.ini. the boot menu works, and shows both OS's, but when i select linux it just freezes up with a blinking cursor in the corner.

This won't work. You have to have lilo install its boot sector into your root partition, then do:

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dd if=/dev/{root device}of=bootsect.lnx count=1 bs=512

and then copy the bootsect.lnx file to your NT partition (either by copying it directly, or copying it to a FAT partition or floppy), and use that as the boot sector file in boot.ini. However, you will have to regenerate this if you update your kernel.

The process is fully covered in a Mini-HOWTO. You can see it at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html. If you eventually start using Grub instead, you can do something similar, and that will let you avoid the difficulty of regenerating the boot sector whenever you update the kernel.

This message has been edited by kai on June 27, 2001 at 06:11 PM

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PostIcon Posted on: Jun. 27 2001,05:36 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
It's quite a bit easier to setup a dual boot with win98 and linux, nt/2000 is a bit harder because of it's bootloader.
this should help you out: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~jomstead/
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PostIcon Posted on: Jul. 02 2001,11:40 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
thats what i did to begin with, and i got that info off linuxdocs in the first place. it still doesn't work. when i select the linux option in the nt boot manager it just freezes up.
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PostIcon Posted on: Jul. 02 2001,18:46 Skip to the previous post in this topic.  Ignore posts   QUOTE
Nothing useful to say, just want to get leet haxor
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