Dual boot upgrade...

[Jack Berger]

My two cents:

Unless you're really enamored with using lilo as the primary boot loader I'd use
the NT boot loader to do the booting. This requires installing lilo in your
primary linux partion (ie /dev/hda1 for example), and making a copy of the
Bootsec.lin file for NT to use. The links below describe both methods (watch
that the links may be wrapped due to the message wrapping). While the links are
for Caldera, the concept is the same for most distros. I've got my Suse 7.3
booting from the NT boot loader using the setup described below. Prior to this I
used the IBM boot manager from OS/2 for all of my dual (or more) boot systems.

Will Windows 2000 work with OpenLinux ? (Ref. #000127-0032)
http://support.caldera.com/caldera/solution?11=000127-0032&130=0949003334&14=22&2715=48&15=2&2716=&57=faq&58=&2900=mQwbKAKcUp

Boot NT with LILO (Ref. #991020-0001)
http://support.calderasystems.com/caldera?solution&11-991020-0001&130-940459794&14-0&2715-0&15-0&2716-0&57-search&58-&25-6&3-nt

Dual boot with Windows NT/Linux doesn't boot NT (Ref. #981030-0027)
http://support.calderasystems.com/caldera?solution&11-981030-0027&130-909785168&14-0&2715-0&15-0&2716-0&57-search&58-&25-6&3-nt

-jhb-


From: "stayler" <stayler at xmtservices.net>

> Lilo will boot Win2K fine.  He may need to make up a boot floppy so he
> can reinstall lilo when Win2K is done frelling up his HD....
> 
> stayler
> 
>On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 04:33:24 +0000, James Conner wrote:
>
>> I have a friend that is currently running Mandrake 9.0 and Win98SE with lilo 
>> as the boot manager.  His system has 640mb of ram and Win98 doesn't like it 
>> at all.  He wants to upgrade 98 to either XP or 2000.  He also wants to keep 
>> the dual boot to MDK 9.0, he likes linux, but is very much a newbie.
>> Since I'll be assisting him in this, my question is what needs to be done 
>> different with lilo, if anything?  I've searched the mailing list archives 
>> and didn't find what I need.  I do remember a thread on this a year or so 
>> ago.