Allo

I'm in the process of setting up a dual boot between Slackware 9 and Windows XP. I've partitioned the drive correctly and successfully installed slack, however , because I'm setting up a dual boot environment I need to make a boot disk instead of using the MBR option.

When I boot from the disk the default config pops onto the screen as soon as I hit enter get an error that i got a bad boot disk.

Is there any way to make a boot disk without having to go through the installation or any way I can boot into slack without the MBR and boot disk?

Thanx

Why don't you use the MBR? My pc dual boots winXP and Slackware 10 using the MBR... very handy.

Just make sure winXP is installed first then install SW and over-write the MBR. Worked for me and I'm a n00b.

Jaqian

hello, how can u boot w/o using mbr or bootup disk.

1. u can boot linux from XP's ntloader boot menu.do u want help
2. u create a grub bootup disk and manually u can boot to any linux distro

Allo

please tell me how to boot from XPs ntloadr boot mnu, little hesitant to write over the MBR.

thanx

thanx guys, got it to work :-)