Dual booting between Win2k and Linux, no menu to choose?

[frail]

Before formatting, I thought I would try out Mandrake 8 to see what linux was all about. Well it boots straight into linux each time, no boot menu like you would have for Win2k/98, etc.

Did a little searching and noticed someone said running fdisk /mbr will do something. Well it brings Win2k back into the rotation. So how do you switch back and forth from Win2k and Linux?

 

[SUOrangeman]

I will answer this shortly. To help me, run 'fdisk' in Linux as root. Print the partition layout by pressing 'p'. Note which partitions are for Windows and which ones are Linux.

Now, you will need to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file so that we can add three lines for Windows. Chances are that these three lines will need to be at the end of that file:

other=/dev/hda1
(tab)label=windows
(tab)table=/dev/hda

I could be off, as I haven't booting into Linux for a while. Hopefully, someone will correct me as needed.

After the file is edited, run 'lilo' from the command line as the root user.

-SUO

 

[fivepesos]

SUO pretty acruately described how to configure LILO to boot windows. but heres another way that i personally use. http://www.tweak3d.net/articles/multibootlinux/ . it adds the linux partition to the NT boot loader. so basically u have the same menu u have for windows 2000/98 but with an option for linux. both will work but see what u like.

 

[fivepesos]

SUO pretty acruately described how to configure LILO to boot windows. but heres another way that i personally use. http://www.tweak3d.net/articles/multibootlinux/ . it adds the linux partition to the NT boot loader. so basically u have the same menu u have for windows 2000/98 but with an option for linux. both will work but see what u like.

 

[HalfHuman]

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