----- Original Message ----- From: Shawn Iverson Sent: 1/27/2004 2:43:24 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Adding Windows 2000 into a dual-boot after the fact? > > If by chance grub isn't happy with W2K (I know I had trouble with RH9), you > can use the W2K bootloader to book Linux by doing the following: > > If your linux boot partition is /dev/hda1: > > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=boot.lin bs=512 count=1 > > Copy the boot.lin onto the root of the W2K partition, using a floppy or some > other means. > > Edit your boot.ini and add the following under [boot loader]: > > c:\boot.lin="Fedora" > > I believe that there is a howto out there on the details of how to do this. I've done this before. In this scenario you'd make Fedora the slave, though, right? I mean, I'd take the drive that already has Fedora and make it the slave to the Win2k drive. Would this cause any problems with the Linux install? Preston
