win2k ` linux ` win98

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Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: 2001-07-02 03:03:11 PST

> I've been trying to boot win2k, mandrake8.0 and win98 with lilo or
> grub but I can't make it work.
> On my first hard disk, I've installed windows 98 on a 2 GB primary
> partition and windows 2k on a 20 GB logical partion (hda5). At the end
> of the disk I've got a 8 GB fat32 logical partiton.
> Mandrake is on my second disk.
> I' like to boot these trhee OS's with lilo, grub, NT bootloader or
> bootmagic. I've tried them all but I can't get them to work correctly.
> [...]
> When I try using Grub, I get an error message when I try to boot
> directly to windows 2000.

I have this setup and use GRUB with no problem. Make sure that you copy across the following files to the Win2k partition:

NTLDR
NTDETECT.COM
BOOT.INI

I also found that I needed to change the rdisk number in boot.ini to be zero - it obviously decides that the disk that it resides on is disk 0 regardless of what anything else thinks.

Andy

win2k ` linux ` win98

> [...] Make sure that you copy
> across the following files to the Win2k partition [...]

If you have bootable FAT/NTFS partition when installing NT/2k, then it will install bootfiles on this partition. With Partition Magic I always disabled all other partitions, installed Win2k (now it puts its boot files on the "only" own partition) and then enabled other partitions back.

If you cannot/do not want to do it, then the above advice may help. Be warned that you will have problems with any SW that modifies boot.ini *and* with service packs (they all still assume you have these files in original location).

=arvi=