awesome, this is what I was looking for. Thanks for all the help everybody.
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Legato <pjlegato@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 12:12 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Win2000 dual boot
>
> Win2k is extremely problematic. This is the procedure I've been able to
> gather from various newsgroups and web pages (though I haven't actually
tried
> this yet because my #*@! win2k partition won't boot because I swapped a
> CD-ROM and a hard drive on the IDE chain. Apparently Win2k records data
about
> each mass storage device in the registry, and if something's moved when it
> boots from where it thinks the stuff should be, it bsod's with
> INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. Anyone know how to fix that, btw?) But I
digress..
>
> Best bet is to install Win2k first, leaving some unpartitioned space
> available for Linux. Most Linux installation programs are much less
> beligerent towards other operating systems than Windows' tend to be. Then,
> once Windows is up and running, install Linux on the remaining free drive
> space.
>
> Dual booting with Windows 2000 is a royal pain in the ass, probably by
> design. If you alter the master boot record, Win2k won't boot, so you
can't
> use LILO as your main boot loader. Install LILO into the boot sector of
your
> root Linux partition rather than in the MBR. Then use dd to copy the first
> 512 bytes of that partition into a file on your Windows partition. Then
edit
> boot.ini on the windows partition to make it boot the Linux bootsector
image.
>
> For example.. my setup:
> /dev/hda1 - Windows 2000 FAT32 partition
> /dev/hda2 - Linux swap partition
> /dev/hda3 - Linux / partition
>
> so install everything, and make a Linux bootdisk just in case. Install
LILO
> like:
>
> /sbin/lilo /dev/hda3 # <-- Installs to the boot sector of partition 3
>
> then:
>
> mkdir /mnt/win # make a mount point for the Windows partition
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win # mount it
> # (alternately, edit /etc/fstab so you
> # don't have to do this by hand every
> # time you reboot the computer)
> dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/mnt/win/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> # ^^^ copy first 512 bytes (i.e. boot sector) to a file in /mnt/win/
> joe /mnt/win/boot.ini # edit boot.ini
>
> and add a line such as
>
> c:\bootsect.lnx = "Linux"
>
> into the [operating systems] sectlion.
>
> After that, you should have a new menu entry in your Windows 2000 boot
loader
> that will boot Linux.
>
> You'll need to reinstall LILO and redo that dd every time you recompile
your
> kernel, to update the boot sector image on the Windows partition...
>
> Good luck... Win2k is a fickle hellcat.
>
> -Paul
>
>
>
> On Tuesday 03 July 2001 02:42 am, you wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > What is the best way to dual boot Windows2000 and linux on the same hard
> > disk? If you have a link to a helpful webpage, I would be much abliged.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rich
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