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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