-----Original Message----- From: Avi Schwartz [mailto:avi@CFFtechnologies.com] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:59 AM To: gnu4u@linux.nu; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Win 200 & SuSE 7.0
I am using GRUB to boot between Linux and Win2K although I am sure LILO can do it too. No need to boot from a floppy.
Avi
--On Monday, February 05, 2001 03:00:17 PM +0100 EagleIce
wrote: Hi all!
I just installed Windows 2000 on my home box, now running: Win 98, Win 2000, SuSE 7.0, Debian. I don't know much about Win 2000's boot strategi. It's got it's bootmanager on the MBR now and boots both 98 and 2000. At the moment I boot linux from floppy. Win2 is on NTFS, not FAT32. The question is: can I safely put Lilo back on MBR wit the normal Win98 configuration in lilo.conf? Am I right in my theory that when I choose Windows in the lilo bootup it will run Win2000 bootloader? I did this in a test-installation earlier and it worked but I don't recall all the details. A word on this would be much appreciated.
Lilo and Grub are different type bootloaders Lilo writes itself to the MBR where as Grub does not. Since you are already using the Win2K bootloader I would stongly suggest that you use either Grub or edit your boot.ini and add SuSe to it. Do Not use Lilo, or if you choose to do so Do Not use fdisk /MBR should you ever decide to remove it or you will also remove your Win2K boot record. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.