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01-05-2005, 05:31 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 3
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Cannot dual boot win2k RH linux
I have a Dell D600 laptop, I installed RH linux on it, but when it roboots, it doesn't show linux as an option to bool in win2k loader. I know there's some workaround to this based on transfer the boot file from linux to win2k but I dont have a floppy drive to make the transfer.
Is ther any other way to do this?, will samba be some help?
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01-05-2005, 05:55 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: munich
Distribution: Fedora Core 4
Posts: 141
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what you need is to boot linux throught win2k boot loader? why don't use grub? there you can put an boot option for win and for linux... install it on the mbr and that is....
works good for me!
leg
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01-05-2005, 06:50 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 3
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Hi,
It would be nice to uset win2k boot loader since it's my companies laptop, but I believe I could survive using grub.
The only thing is that I havent'n used grub ever, so I'll investigate how to used, but I have a question regarding installation, when I came to the point where I need to install the boot loader, I'll chose grub but where do I need to install it, en MBR or /boot???, also do I need to check lba32 support???
Regards
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01-05-2005, 09:39 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: The Abyss that is America
Distribution: SuSE 9.1, Mandrake 10, Redhat 9, Fedora 2+3, Free BSD
Posts: 6
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You need to instal GRUB on the MBR without the LBA32 support option
This should work smoothly
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01-06-2005, 03:09 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: munich
Distribution: Fedora Core 4
Posts: 141
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there are a lot of grub tutorials on the net, just google something like grub howto or grub tutorual and you get it...
have a while,
leg
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01-06-2005, 01:47 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 3
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Ok,
I'll go grub way then, I reinstall linux and report what happends, thanks a lot.
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01-06-2005, 08:32 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: The Abyss that is America
Distribution: SuSE 9.1, Mandrake 10, Redhat 9, Fedora 2+3, Free BSD
Posts: 6
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good luck man
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