On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Guillermo Garron wrote:
On 7/21/06, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
well I am not expert in the boot loaders but I went through similar
problem before in Redhat 9 days.
It has something to do with Windows 2000/NT because windows 2000 MBR
and Grub is not compatible unlike Windows 98/me/xp, where grub can
chain load other operating systems. Whichever you install first,
windows 2000 will overwrite the MBR. If you plan to use both Windows
2000 and Linux, you have to use third party boot loader (I guess
commercial ones). Since its been long time I forgot which boot loaders
are avilable out there. You can search the goole for available tools.
hi, you can use this
http://gag.sourceforge.net/
and it is free! it is great, you can use it on a diskette, or write
into MBR, you can reconfigure it as many times as you like and support
a lot of disks and operating systems.
regards,
Guillermo.
My trick for dual boot is to write GRUB into the boot sector of /boot.
You need to use fdisk then to make the /boot partition active (don't use
the Win2K disk utility!) before Linux will boot, but after that, you can
reinstall Linux and Win2K to your heart's content.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
