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Bob Lockie

I want to boot the 2nd partition on the second disk.
I've added the 2nd line to the WinXP boot loader.
Maybe it can't boot over 1024 cylinders?
Is there any documentation on what 'multi' and 'rdisk' mean?
I just ust the values from WinXP.
Suffice it to say that this doesn't work.

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Linux" /fastdetect
/NoExecute=OptIn
 
If you want to boot Linux using Windows boot manager you have to create
a file that will contain boot sector of your Linux partition. Then you
enter something like this into boot.ini:

C:\linux.bst="Red Hat Fedora Core 3"
where linux.bst is the file containing Linux boot sector.
 
Bob Lockie said:
I want to boot the 2nd partition on the second disk.
I've added the 2nd line to the WinXP boot loader.
Maybe it can't boot over 1024 cylinders?
Is there any documentation on what 'multi' and 'rdisk' mean?
I just ust the values from WinXP.
Suffice it to say that this doesn't work.

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Linux" /fastdetect
/NoExecute=OptIn
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Hi Bob,

Why aren't you using LILO or GRUB or something like that to boot up linux?
Would save you a lot of hassle. It is possible to dual boot Linux with
Windows XP Loader, but it's more trouble that it's worth... Besides, when
you've installed Linux on that partition it asked you which bootloader you'd
like to use and it would've configured everything automaticly for you. (No,
the Windows loader wasn't there and it's not meant to be there either...)

Cheers,

Robert
 
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