Installing grub to dual boot

[Mike Reinehr]

On Friday 10 June 2005 02:07 pm, Brad De Vries wrote:
> As I investigate further, I think the problem lies in the fact that I
> have win2000 on the first partition and Linux on the second. ?If I
> install grub into the MBR it must remove the NTLDR boot loader. ?I
> guess what I'm going to try to do next is setup the NTLDR to be able
> to run grub. ?Hopefully that will work and I'll have the same result
> just a different path.
>
Brad

You shouldn't have to do that. Try setting up a boot stanza something like:

title			Win2K
root			(hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader	+1

I'm pretty sure that the boot loader, NTLDR, is located in the Win2K 
partition.

It's been a while since I had to dual-boot anything, but I used to dual boot 
Windows NT without any difficulty. The easiest way was to install Windows 
first, then install Linux, writing GRUB to the MBR and, finally, 
edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to add the above stanza. (Remember to change hd0,0 
as appropriate, but if Win2K is in the first partition of your first/only 
hard drive, then (hd0,0) should work.)

cmr



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