FDISK Question

lennysokol · 04-03-2005, 02:14 PM

I am doing a dual boot --

-installed Win2k
-installed Linux

It still boots Windows.... Errr...

What partition do I set to be active, and how do I set it?

Do I set
/boot active at bootup
or /

(I would suppose boot).

How do I do that? What commands do I need to issue?

I'm a newbie to Linux, and I'm really liking Linux... I just need the uh dual boot!

Thanks!

jtshaw · 04-03-2005, 02:21 PM

You need to install a boot loader, I recommend Grub. As far as being marked as bootable, linux doesn't care one way or another... I know dos needed its volume marked as bootable, I'm not sure if windows cares or not.

david_ross · 04-03-2005, 02:22 PM

This shouldn't really matter, just put your linux bootloader onto the mbr. You should be able to do this using one of your rescue/install cds.