On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 14:40, Chadley Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 18:12, Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
Then, to test Windows XP, rebooted, the XP boot loader gave me the presentation for normal and safe modes. But, one I came up in the ctrl-alt-delete splash screen, neither the keyboard nor the mouse worked. Maybe the system is telling me not to use XP :-)
I think that every time you select windoze from the grub menu it should have a popup that asks "Why are you doing this to me?" In my case it's because there are still games that don't run easily on linux. But hopefully that will continue to improve.
Not that I want to make our lives more complicated using M$ Software but doesn't XP have it's own boot loader on the order of the one that came with NT? I know that with NT you can, and it was recommended that you, use the NT boot loader to choose OS'.
I never used NT and I'm not aware of an XP boot loader, but I can honestly say that I've repeatedly had windoze installation disks ruin my existing Linux partitions so I would never trust a windoze boot loader.
Jeff
Sorry Guys you can't to my knowledge boot a Linux partition with Winblows NT bootloader I have been trying for it for some persistent customers since XP came out, and Windows Support know less about XP than me.
With a valid Linux boot partition apparently the formula for NT and 2k is: /usr/sbin/rdev /boot/vmlinuz /dev/hd?? on /boot type ext? (rw) (note the result of /dev/hd??) dd if=/dev/hd?? of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 (copies boot sector of linux to file) copy file to floppy Boot NT/2k shell to prompt attrib -s -r c:\boot.ini edit c:\boot.ini (plain text editor) and add to bottom of file: C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux" Save and exit attrib +s +r c:\boot.ini reboot system and it ought to be a usable option. This assumes an untainted (non-MS :( ) MBR, so you might need an old boot\rescue floppy to fdisk /mbr if Lilo or Grub is located there.