Can i have 3 os`s like duel boot win98ME with WIN2K/SERVER/ADV-SERVER, without any 3rd part boot manager?????

[camshi]

u know windows recognises another os and gives u the option at bootup or duel; boot at setup on another paritiion.

but this time there will be 3 os`s

i am not keen on bootmanager
3rd party programs

 

[Supradude]

there was a thread on this (in the last 2 or 3 days) and one of our fellow AT members had a pretty good reply... something in the lines of win 98se first, then unix based os with lilo in the unix partition, then win 2k, and boot using some sort of boot manager... my advice is to run a search in a few of the tech orientated forums here for the last thread... good luck = )

 

[lazyboy]

2 is the max without 3rd party.

 

[bobones2]

You can do it all with the w2k or NT boot manager. Just add entries to the boot.ini file. I've had w98, wNT, 2 different linuxes and netbsd all booting off this babe. The basic technique involves copying the first 512 bytes into a file off each boot partition and pointing to these files with boot.ini. Use the dd command from tomsrtbt linux diskette to copy the boot blocks from the raw partition devices, eg dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=bootsect.lnx count=1 bs=512
boot.ini has entries like:
C:\bootsect.w98="Windows 98"
C:\bootsect.lnx="SuSE Linux"
etc.

 

[bigshooter]

install all the microsoft os's, but with win98/me first. The win2k OS's will create and then add themselves to the ntloader boot menu along with win9x/me. Then install your unix OS such as Redhat, or Mandrake. LILO will then be the first boot loader. It will give you a choice for windows or for linux. When you choose windows you will get the NT bootloader screen and then you can choose 9x or win2k. You can have as many OS's as you want, there is not a limit of 2. You don't need any 3rd party boot manager as long as you do everything in the correct order.