Tried bootmagic, and it didn't work for a dual boot SuSE Linux 7.3 Pro/Win2K
system. Had problems booting Linux from it. Letting SuSE Linux write LILO to
the MBR worked great, however.
Chris Shaker
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From: "Art Fore"
I have three machines using BootMagic and all work perfect, but still do not trust Windows enough to use Lilo in MBR.
Art.
-----Original Message----- From: Bryan Tyson [mailto:bryantyson@earthlink.net] Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 7:38 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Linux partitioning
On Saturday 23 February 2002 14:03, Malcolm wrote:
My understanding from what I have read that MBR is not recommended for Win2K or NT, which Grove must have since it is NTFS. I also was not willing to take the chance with the MBR location of the Linux boot loader for Win2K. My understanding is this: with NT, LILO can either be in the boot sector of the primary Linux partition (NT acts as boot manager, and thinks Linux is DOS), or in the MBR with the Linux partition spoofed as DOS within NT (LILO acts as boot manager). The SuSE Reference Manual details this. Win2K isn't mentioned AFAIK.
I have used SuSE dual-booting with Win2k and put lilo in the mbr and it worked great.
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