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Is there any way to use the nt loader from winxp to load linux instead of grub or lilo? I just don't feel like adding yet another prompt to my allready hideous boot sequence. Not to mention the fact that the ntloader works fine. I'm considering Mandrake...
cool.. glad you found the NT-Linux howto at that site.. should get it working for you.. but with XP, i can't tell you for sure if its been updated or not for the howto, but most likely not too much has changed.
Looks like it'll work, but I have to make sure the boot partition is fat16 or fat32, not ntfs, because linux can't write to an ntfs partition. Wish I'd known that before I re-installed xp.
While it's true, that Linux will not (reliably) write ntfs, the only thing you have to write to your ntfs is the linux boot sector, and you can get around the limitation by copying that to a floppy and then transferring it to the windoze partition.
I guess that's true - I never thought about it that way. I'm gonna try that tonight, and let you know how it goes. Thanks a bunch! I was just about ready to format and re-install xp with a 500meg C: partition fat32. Now I don't have to. Cool!
Skidmark, you don't have to use linux to write to your XP partition. If you read the mini-HowTo link I gave you, all you have to do is copy your linux boot sector to an msdos formatted disk and then XP can read the disk and copy it to it's partition. Then you just edit boot.ini and you'e done.
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