Re: [SLUG] Help with Dual Boot Installation

From: Brad Smith (brad_stephenssmith@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jun 14 2003 - 23:26:27 EDT


I'm sure I've dual booted between 2k (using ntfs) and Linux using LILO before. Since the boot
loader generally resides in the mbr, I don't see how having a particular FS elsewhere on the drive
could affect it. But then, maybe I'm missing something. <shrug>.

--Brad

--- Steven Buehler <swbuehler@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I had a similar problem with Windows 2000 and Mandrake 9.1 until I
> found out that LILO and GRUB won't work on NTFS drives. If your
> Windows 2000 partition is NTFS you'll have to use that boot floppy to
> boot into Linux. When I reinstalled Windows 2000 using FAT32 GRUB
> worked flawlessly.
>
> Steven W. Buehler <steven@sanctuaryweb.org>
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