Home
| Calendar
| Mail Lists
| List Archives
| Desktop SIG
| Hardware Hacking SIG
Wiki | Flickr | PicasaWeb | Video | Maps & Directions | Installfests | Keysignings Linux Cafe | Meeting Notes | Blog | Linux Links | Bling | About BLU |
You can install a boot to Linux in the W2K boot loader. Instructions at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html Works great. You might be able to set Linux as the default, though I haven't tried this. ControlPanel/System/Advanced/Startup and recovery shows my Linux line in the boot.ini. David > It sounds like the W2K boot loader is doing it to you. I don't know grub, > but I have installed LILO in the MBR for Win2K at installfests, and that > seems to work. > A DOS standalone boot disk, will restore the MBR, but Linux fdisk can also > change the flags. > I don't think it is the partition flags that are being changed. It sounds > to me that the pointer to the Win2K loader is being inserted. > On 15 Jun 2002 at 18:16, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > > I have an old fashioned mbr, like mdos3.1 fdisk /mbr. > > I am assuming that the active partition flags are in the mbr. > > -- > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> > Associate Director > Boston Linux and Unix user group > http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 > PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
BLU is a member of BostonUserGroups | |
We also thank MIT for the use of their facilities. |