Dual Boot with windows: where to put the boot loader?
Florian Primessnig
florian at subnet.at
Tue May 31 15:11:10 UTC 2005
erich.iseli at iseli.org schrieb:
> Hi List,
>
> I've read the wiki and forum entries about this issue. I've been using
> linux for 4 years and made many installations. Tonight I have an hour
> or two to install ubuntu on my dad's PC, but he needs a dual boot.
> Other thing: I don't have partition magic or any other windows
> partitioning tool. His PC has 4 partitions, the 1st being where
> Windows is installed, all others are free. His PC has no diskette
> drive, so creating a boot diskette where to save the boot loader is no
> option either.
>
> Why is everybody telling not to install grub in the MBR when
> dual-booting?
i'm not
grub is cool!
>
> How can I edit the windows bootloader so that it actually starts into
> ubuntu?
its not possible to get ntloader loading linux
>
> Here's what I plan to do:
> 1) boot from ubuntu CD
> 2) install it, format the partition now known as E: with fat32 instead
> of NTFS and F: with xfs (preferrably) or ext3, as well as create there
> a swap partition
> 3) install grub (QUESTION: where if not the MBR?)
mbr
> 4) reboot: being prompted for: windows or ubuntu?
grub coming up - both !
>
> I guess that doing the steps 1-3 won't modify the windows bootloader.
> So before doing this, I will have to do something on windows. Any
> suggestions?
ubuntu installer will recognize windows and list it in grub menu.lst
edit /boot/grub/menu.lst if you want to start windows per default
lg
florian
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