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Thread #45092   Message #665355
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
08-Mar-02 - 05:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: Geeky question - W2K and Linux?
Subject: Geeky question - W2K and Linux?
I have a reasonable amount of coomputer skills - 20 odd years with Unix - not a lot of dealings with PC's though. Here's the question - I have 2 disks on my PC. One now has W2K - works fine. One is partitioned half Win98 and half Linux. Works fine. But can I get either the Linux boot loader (LILO) or the W2K one (NTLDR) to see the other disk? Can I hell! If I boot off disk 1 it just boots W2K. Boot off disk 2 and LILO gives me the choice of Win98 or Linux. I tried writing the LILO boot sector to disk one but that did not see W2K either and overwrote the NTLDR. Had to use the W2K recovery console to fix the boot record after that one!

Can anyone either tell me how to get a boot loader which will see all three or, alternatively, write a shanty about it;-)

Cheers

Dave the Gnome