Windows XP: Dual Boot XP
Dual Boot XP
by misfire99 - 9/12/08 4:08 PMHello All
I have Windows XP pro installed on a hard drive I would like to add another hard drive that already has Linux installed on it. The windows drive is the master drive and the linux drive is the slave. I would like to use the boot manager in windows to dual boot the system. I have been looking on line for ways to do this. Just about everything I find says that I need to have windows installed last so it will find the other OS and set up the dual boot option. Well this wasn't possible when I installed windows ( the mother board I up graded to only has one IDE channel and I needed the slave of it for the cd rom drive to install windows from). I'm now in a situation that I want to add the dual boot feature but can't find a way to do it. I could use lilo but that would overwrite the boot sector on the master drive and I am leery of doing that. Any ideas as to how I can get the dual boot feature on windows to let me boot the slave drive?
TIA
Never found that to work.
by R. Proffitt
- 9/13/08 6:08 AM
In reply to: Dual Boot XP by misfire99
So I just install Linux and take it's boot manager the next time around.
So nobody knows????
by misfire99 - 9/17/08 5:33 PM In reply to: Never found that to work. by R. Proffitt
Yes I could use lilo, like I said in my post, but I would have to wipe out the MBR of the windows disk. What I want to do is use windows dual boot feature. Does the lack of response mean that nobody knows how to use the dual boot feature.
Something I've never seen.
by R. Proffitt - 9/17/08 6:37 PM
In reply to: So nobody knows???? by misfire99
Windows boot manager booting Linux? That would be a first and only interesting to 4 people in the world today (no offense is meant here.)
Take a google of OSL2000 and see if you can use that.
Bob
OSL2000 does what I want to avoid
by misfire99 - 9/23/08 5:39 PM In reply to: Something I've never seen. by R. Proffitt
I'm sure OSL2000 boot loader will dual boot but it wipes out the MBR. This is what I am trying to avoid doing. If I want to wipe out the MBR I will use lilo or grub. Both of them work great and are free. OSL2000 wants $25 for something I already have that's free. I guess I am going to have to use Lilo and wipe out the MBR. I can make a copy of it using dd in Linux so if anything happens I can get it back. Windows dual boot feature is supposed to work with linux. But it seems there is no way to add an OS after the windows install.
I just don't understand why people that use windows holds still for such crappy software. BBC had a good article about how Russia used bot nets of Microsoft computers in the US to attack Georgia's cyber systems. Windows is so bad thousands of them can be taken over remotely and used by terrorist to attack other countries. There is just no excuse for that. The only reason we still have it is my wife needs it for her work. Maybe she should get a different job.
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