Newbie Multi-boot Revisited..

[MattWray]

I am a newbie to Linux. I just installed it yesterday and that is the first experience I have with it. Now my question is this. I used Partition Magic to partition my 2 HD's into 4 appr 10 gig partitions on 1 drive and an 8 gig partition on my second drive. I have Win98 on C HD1, Win2k on D HD2, Linux Mandrake on E HD1. I haven't used the others yet. When I boot, I get the Lilo screen with Linux, Failsafe(?), Windows. When I choose Windows I then get the multi-boot screen for Win with win98 and 2k. How would I go about getting Win98 and Win2k in the boot- menu of Lilo? I was in the area of it, I think, from the control area in boot section. It talks about HDA1 and whatnot. I really don't know where to start, and any help is Much Appreciated!
Sorry for the long post.
Matt Wray
CCNA, MCP
mwray77518@yahoo.com

 

[bubak]

I think, there will be a problem with this,coz WINNT is located on hda2, but it does start from hda1, the bootmenu for w98/w2k is made ju8st coz the c:\boot.ini
Ona way will be to install the system(w2k) on the second partition in that way, that it should think, it's the first one (you will have to remap them in lilo.conf or in grub_somewhere) but I think it's a little bit scarry 4U

bubak

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

I'm not sure you can do that with lilo. If you have a windows o/s there, the NT/W2K/XP loader appears to takeover /dev/hda1 (c:\)whether you like it or not . There are commercial bootloaders that can achieve what you want but it seems to be by dynamically swapping the boot files when the user chooses from the menu, e.g. System Commander from v-com -->

http://www.v-com.com/product/sc7_qt.html

. It creates a c:\sc directory and subdirectories under that so that when you choose an o/s, if appropriate, it copies the right stuff onto the c:\ drive.

I believe bootmagic (comes with partition magic) may do the same thing as it seems to work in a similar manner . However, I have seen a few negative comments on that one so, if you try, make sure you create a linux boot floppy first.


Regards

 

[MattWray]

So I basically just have to live with it.. Thanks anyway.. Matt Wray
CCNA, MCP
mwray77518@yahoo.com

 

[bluedevils]

you could always go the other way and have nt boot loader include lilo

 

[MattWray]

I am going to be running 2 different versions of Linux also. Matt Wray
CCNA, MCP
mwray77518@yahoo.com

 

[bluedevils]

Woops I meant to say nt bootloader boot into linux. You can do this with more than one linux installation.

The instructions are on the web. They involve copying the boot sector onto a floppy disk and putting it onto the nt file system. There is also some editting of the boot.ini

 

[MattWray]

Do you remember where you saw them? Matt Wray
CCNA, MCP
mwray77518@yahoo.com

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

For the NT loader howto see -->

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html

Regards