On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:53:36PM -0400, Alvaro Muir wrote:
> Has anyone else experienced Windows fdisking the bootloader on each restart,
> thus overwriting your linux bootloader ( I am using grub ) ? If anyone knows
> of any tutorials using NTLDR to boot linux ( with grub instead of lilo _)
> let me know, thanks...
Yup, struggled with that for a couple days. And I couldn't get the boot.ini
multi-boot to boot grub successfully (it'd boot, and see the linux filesystem,
but couldn't successfully load the kernel)
What eventually worked is to:
1 - install XP on a reduced /dev/hda1 (Used the 'Restoring your TC1000 without a
CD drive Vers 2' instructions, and the boot disk images from the debian
install CD to netboot - PXE, repartition, then boot the restore)
(BTW, booting from a USB Click! drive adapter worked, as well, but it's
a pain, since you have to tell the bios _every time_ to boot from it,
and it doesn't always take.)
2 - install Debian on hda2 (swap on hda3)
3 - put GRUB on the linux partition (hda2) - configure it to chain boot XP,
but _not_ set the partition (hda1) active
4 - mark hda2 as the active partition
Voila! Dual boot.
Ross
P.S. just found the list, so I'm answering 'historical' questions, just for
the archives for others to find.
Received on Tue Jul 22 04:49:04 2003
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