Installation to dedicated disk
Peter Garrett
peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Mon May 1 01:20:41 UTC 2006
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:43:58 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> No, that is not advisable. How will you get the XP boot loader to boot
> another OS? I've looked fairly hard for it (but not exhaustively
> [Michael, no comments please]) and have not found a chainload
> function in the Windows loader
A google on " dual boot windows linux ntloader howto " turned up
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Dual_booting
amongst others...
Why anyone would bother with this kind of convoluted approach, I really
don't know, since grub on the MBR works just fine, but whatever...
[snip]
>
> Why not do what all of us have been doing for 10 years?
>
> Install grub/lilo to /dev/hda
> Install Windows to /dev/hda1
> Install Linux to <wherever>
> Confidure grub/lilo - all OSes boot properly
Exactly. In fact the installer detects the windows partition and adds the
relevant stanza to the end of /boot/grub/menu.lst anyway. It really is
puzzling why so many people seem to think that this "wrecks" the windows
install.
Peter
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