I don't know if you know how to do this, but in case you do ...
I'm trying to boot into Windows 2000, Windows 98 SE and Redhat Linux v7.1. It boots to W2K and 98 via the Windows NT boot loader and to Linux via a boot floppy.
My question is how to add Linux to the Windows NT loader so I can boot Linux without the floppy.
Here is my configuration:
Disk 1, the primary IDE master, the C:\ drive, is 20GB. It has one partition formatted FAT32 with Windows 98 SE installed.
Disk 2, the primary IDE slave, is 30GB. It has one 10GB primary partition and one 20GB extended partition with three logical partitions
- Primary partition: 10GB D:\ drive formatted NTFS with Windows 2000 Professional.
- Extended partition: 20GB
- logical partition 1: 10GB E:\ drive, formatted FAT32 with no OS for data.
- logical partition 2: 10GB less 128GB, formatted Linux Ext2 for Linux root.
- logical partition 3: 128GB, formatted Linux Swap.
Booting is via the Windows NT boot. Before installing Linux c:\boot.ini read:
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98 SE"
When I added Linux I did not touch the MBR but did make a boot floppy which works.
Contents of the Linux boot floppy:
---------------------------------
boot.msg
BOOTSECT.LNX
initrd.img
LDLINUX.SYS
syslinux.cfg
vmlinuz
Contents of syslinux.cfg
------------------------
default linux
prompt 1
display boot.msg
timeout 100
label linux
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hdb6
What I tried:
I copied all the files from the Linux boot floppy and added the following to the end of
c:\boot.ini:
c:\bootsect.lnx="Redhat Linux v7.1"
I also tried Powerquest Boot Magic v7 to boot to Windows and Linux. No joy.
I'm trying to boot into Windows 2000, Windows 98 SE and Redhat Linux v7.1. It boots to W2K and 98 via the Windows NT boot loader and to Linux via a boot floppy.
My question is how to add Linux to the Windows NT loader so I can boot Linux without the floppy.
Here is my configuration:
Disk 1, the primary IDE master, the C:\ drive, is 20GB. It has one partition formatted FAT32 with Windows 98 SE installed.
Disk 2, the primary IDE slave, is 30GB. It has one 10GB primary partition and one 20GB extended partition with three logical partitions
- Primary partition: 10GB D:\ drive formatted NTFS with Windows 2000 Professional.
- Extended partition: 20GB
- logical partition 1: 10GB E:\ drive, formatted FAT32 with no OS for data.
- logical partition 2: 10GB less 128GB, formatted Linux Ext2 for Linux root.
- logical partition 3: 128GB, formatted Linux Swap.
Booting is via the Windows NT boot. Before installing Linux c:\boot.ini read:
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98 SE"
When I added Linux I did not touch the MBR but did make a boot floppy which works.
Contents of the Linux boot floppy:
---------------------------------
boot.msg
BOOTSECT.LNX
initrd.img
LDLINUX.SYS
syslinux.cfg
vmlinuz
Contents of syslinux.cfg
------------------------
default linux
prompt 1
display boot.msg
timeout 100
label linux
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hdb6
What I tried:
I copied all the files from the Linux boot floppy and added the following to the end of
c:\boot.ini:
c:\bootsect.lnx="Redhat Linux v7.1"
I also tried Powerquest Boot Magic v7 to boot to Windows and Linux. No joy.
