On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:58, David M. Vo wrote:
> Thanks Federico and Steve.
Welcome,
> What file format do you guys format you file system under? My is NTFS.
> Grub can pick up FAT but do not like NTFS.
This is before any file system is even an issue. The MBR does not have a file
system, it's the MBR. I.e. the MBR will only point to the next point to pick
up the boot sequence. At THAT point a file system is used.
So you can have any file system you want. Grub is way more flexible than Lilo
and is now the standard with RH. I expect others will follow suit.
A small boot partition inside the first 1024 cylinders applies only if you
have an old BIOS.
At one point I booted 10 different OSs on my 80G drive.
The only thing is that windows does not play nice with others. So you install
it first. I don't use NTFS because it's not entirely supported under Linux.
My win partitions are always fat32 in all its poor implementations.
> Federico, I assumed the 8mb partition you mentioned is in HDA (first drive)
> right.
> Also, do I need to format it in NTFS or Linux?
>
> Thanks guys
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of
> Federico Paini
> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 9:35 AM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] DUAL BOOT
>
>
> You have to use a utility called Bootpart, you can find it on the net, it
> modifies the boot.ini of win2k to add OSes to boot.
> Before that though, you have to create a small partition of about 6-8 Mb at
> the beginning of your HD and you format it exit with mount point /boot and
> install lilo or grub there.
> Then you add that partition with Bootpart and you have a full dual boot PC
> with w2k and Linux.
> It is a safe and fairly easy process, I did it tons of time.
>
> Hope helps,
> Federico
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of David
> M. Vo
> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 7:39 AM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: [SLUG] DUAL BOOT
>
>
> I had installed the WIN 2k on the HDA and RH 7.2 on HDB.
> WIN 2k format in NTFS, everytime I want to boot RH I have to boot it from
> the floppy disk.
> Is there anyway that I can use LILO or SCRUB to have the boot option
> installed on the MBR?
>
> Thanks
>
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