--- Abhishek Gupta abhi_shek@rediffmail.com wrote:

Hi there,

Just wanted to ask about how do we boot linux using the windows 2000 boot loader. One way is mentioned in the linuxdocs that we extract first 512 bytes using dd= .... command, and copy this image to the windows drive , adding it to the boot.ini. but this doesnt work et al. So if anyone pl. can help on this.....

Dunno why it doesn't work for you. I have a WinNT/ FreeBSD system set up this way, and it has worked perfectly for me since the last 6 months or so. I followed the exact procedure given in the HOWTO, except that my bootloader is FreeBSD's BootEasy and not LILO. Incidentally, the boot system is now changed since I find BootEasy a more reliable boot loader than NT.

The machine on which I have set this up actually originally had only a 20 GB HDD, on which I had first installed an NT partition in the first 4 GB, and then a BSD parition of 4 GB. It booted using the NT boot loader. The remaining disk space was given to NT. Subsequently I added a 40 GB HDD to this box, and removed the BSD partition on the first HDD, which I gave over entirely to NT. The second HDD (40 GB) was formatted with the first 20 GB section for FreeBSD and the remaining space for NT (again!). I then reinstalled the FreeBSD system so that its bootloader would install on the first HDD and come up with an option to boot either NT off Disk 0 or BSD off Disk 1. The only thing you have to remember is that you have to get all this done before reinstalling NT/ 2K on the first HDD if you're putting another boot loader on Disk 1. However, AFAIK, this problem will not arise if you're using the NT loader.

Why don't you review what you had done the last time around against the procedure mentioned in the HOWTO and then try it again?

HTH,

Krishnan

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