Mike McCarty wrote:
Fritz Whittington wrote:
On or about 2005-07-25 03:45, Paul Howarth whipped out a trusty #2
pencil and scribbled:
Monkey Pet wrote:
[that he wants a multi-boot system]
An even better solution requires no extra floppies, CD's or even a USB
memory stick. Just install GRUB on the BR of the boot *partition*
(not in the MBR), copy the usual boot loader code from the partition,
install it on the C: drive as a file, and add the option to your
C:\boot.ini file. Easy instructions are at:
http://board.iexbeta.com/lofiversion/index.php/t47038.html
I use this myself under Windows 2000 to boot Linux, and it works great.
That is the way I boot from XP. But you do presume. This will
not work with Windows 95 or Windows 98, for example. It will
work with Windows NT.
I used to use something called BOOT.SYS in combination with BOOTLIN.COM,
a windows 95 device driver and an MS-DOS program that you could use in
your CONFIG.SYS file to present a menu to boot from. The top of my
CONFIG.SYS file used to look like this:
DEVICE = C:\DRIVERS\BOOT.SYS /T5
DEVICE = BOOT.1 LINUX
SHELL = C:\COMMANDS\BOOTLIN.COM C:\LINUX\VMLINUZ
DEVICE = BOOT.2 OLD LINUX
SHELL = C:\COMMANDS\BOOTLIN.COM C:\LINUX\VMLINUZ.OLD
DEVICE = BOOT.3 NEW LINUX
SHELL = C:\COMMANDS\BOOTLIN.COM C:\LINUX\VMLINUZ.NEW
DEVICE = BOOT.4 MS-DOS
BUFFERS = 20
FILES = 40
It should work from Windows-98 too. Of course, I switched to LILO and
then GRUB when they became available....
Of course, not having used them in years, I have no idea if they are
still available, and even if they are, I don't know if they will still
work with Fedora kernels or initrds....
--
Kevin J. Cummings
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