Dual boot with windows
 

Hi,

I have 2 HDDs. One is with Windows 2K and another Mandriva Linux with Grub.

Both individual works fine.

Windows has one boot.ini file. I want to edit that file for Linux boot entry. So that i can decide which one to boot.

BR,
Shaan

It sounds like you would prefer to boot linux using the Windows boot loader by configuring the .ini file. I'm sure there is a solution, but I don't know how.

You could achieve similar results by making the linux hard drive the primary and use grub to boot both linux and windows.

Here is a a post with a slightly different situation, but the solution here should work.

Thanks. Let me try that.

but still if I am able to achieve that using Windows boot loader, will be great.

Here is a walkthrough.
http://bkpavan.wordpress.com/2008/04...bootloader-xp/

Short summary.
Get Bootloader of Linux OS. (not using mbr)copy linux.boot to your windows harddrive

Add
to c:\boot.ini (do attrib -r -w -s c:\boot.ini to get it writable)

Let me try this....

Here is link for same in very detailed (for dummies like me)

http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux...w2k-HOWTO.html

I tried that but got stuck up. Need ur help.

i am not seeing any /BOOT mounted with df command. Its shows 2 hard disk partitions, hda1 and hda6.

I tried for all hda1-6 and hda. Its hanging for all except for hda. For hda it shows "GRUB" word on screen and hangs.

Any pointer ?

Try this link, the explanations are pretty thorough and simple:

http://www.linux.com/articles/113945

Task E4 of the last link in my signature refers.

I am trying to boot 10 copies of the same Xp with it, one at a time in the same hard disk. I managed to get everything done by a script.

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I am trying to boot 10 copies of the same Xp with it, one at a time in the same hard disk. I managed to get everything done by a script.

I am trying to boot 10 copies of the same Xp with it, one at a time in the same hard disk.

What's up with the escort service ads in post #11?

Dual boot Windows Mandriva
 

I am new to this group and would appreciate some help.

I have a Dell GX270 P4 3GHz system with 1GB RAM and an IDE 40GB HD with 27GB free and Windows XP service pack 3. I want to create a dual boot Window / Mandriva system.

I have downloaded Mandriva-linux-one-2009.1-KDE-europe1-americas-cdrom-i586.iso and burnt it to a CD. I defragmented my HD.

I have changed my BIOS so that the boot disc order is from the CD-ROM first.

I have booted the system several times and it looks at the CD but goes on to Windows. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

Douglas

I don't know that this is the problem but, after downloading the iso image, did you burn it as an image. If not, it won't work. You can select 'burn as image' or something similar in most CD copying software. You should also do the md5 checksum to make sure it is a good download and burn at a slow speed.

Probably a bad download or burn or not an image copy.

Dual boot Windows Mandriva
 

Dear Yancek,

I did wonder about that. I will try again.

Thank you!

Douglas