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Old 11-21-2001, 07:13 PM   #1
Vikrant Yadav
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Post dual boot option

hi,

If any body can suggest,
I have installed red hat linux7.1 along with win2000 on my system the problem is this that i have to boot linux from bootable floppy it won't show up as dual boot option what can i do to fix this .
any suggestion will be appreciated.
Thanxs
 
Old 11-21-2001, 10:57 PM   #2
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Maybe this article will help.
 
Old 11-21-2001, 11:23 PM   #3
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I setup my laptop to dual boot by putting lilo on the MBR then after booting into linux I put the win2k info in lilo.conf and it works great.

win2k was installed first, it was on Drive C:

I added this to lilo.conf

other=/dev/hda1
optional
label="win2k"
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