Re: Boot from memory-stick?

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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.

Mike

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