Just wondering on a quick way to fix the problem with the WIN2K boot manager making the Linux partition unavailable for booting at startup. I did a clean install of Redhat 7.2 on a partition, then folowed it up with a Win2K install on the other partitions. Now Linux can only boot from floppy. What do people recommend as a boot manager for a dual Win2K and Linux ? Mike

Boot up Linux with the bootdisc and edit /boot/grub/grub.conf You will probably have to add something like: title Windows 2000 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 and then run /sbin/grub from the prompt. This will only work if you had Grub installed as bootloader before. If you had no bootloader installed you need to install either Grub or Lilo first.......

Okay, here is my /etc/lilo.conf that I use to boot up either Win2000 or RedHat Linux 7.2! It works just fine so make sure it points to the right drive for the right OS!!! Lawrence # /etc/lilo.conf default=linux prompt timeout=50 boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message linear # image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 label=linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img read-only root=/dev/hdb1 append="hdc=ide-scsi" # other=/dev/hda1 optional label=Win2000

I have installed windows 2000 advanced server on a NTFS volume.I also installed Linux7.2 on another partition.I was not been able to dual boot between Windows 2000 advanced server and linux.Pl anyone help me. with thanks k.senthil kumar

First of all, are you able to boot to either OS, and did you make boot disks? What are you using as a bootloader for linux? If you are using lilo you want to ensure that it is NOT installed on the MBR. Otherwise you will overwrite the Windows OS Loader and you may have to reinstall Windows 2000. Best to have it on the first sector of the boot partition (/boot), within the first 1024 cylinders (8GB). Here's what worked for me: If you are able to boot to the linux partition edit the lilo.conf file (/etc/lilo.conf). 1) Append the file with: other=/dev/hda5 optional label=Win2000 AdvSvr (where hda5 is the location of the linux boot image. Type df from the cmd shell to confirm location.) 2)Dump Linux boot image to a file by typing the following: dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 (Running this command will put bootsect.lnx file in the "/" (root) directory.) Change if=/dev/hda5 to reflect YOUR linux boot partition as applicable. e.g. If your linux boot partition is in hda3, change the command to: dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 3)Mount a DOS formatted disk: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt 4)Now, copy the bootsect.lnx file to the Dos formatted disk: cp /bootsect.lnx /mnt 5)Remove the Linux disk and boot to Windows2000 6)After successful Windows2000 boot, insert the DOS disk and copy the file: A:\>copy bootsect.lnx C:\ 7)Edit the boot.ini file c:\attrib boot.ini -s -h (unhides the file) c:\edit boot.ini (or use notepad) append the file with: c:\bootsect.lnx=Linux Mine looks like this: [boot loader] timeout=10 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows3000 ADV SVR" /fastdetect c:\bootsect.lnx=Linux RH7.3 c:\attrib boot.ini +s +h (To hide the file) 8)Reboot and the menu option to boot Windows and Linux should appear. good luck!

I have Windows 2000 Pro then XP, then Windows 2000 Server installed. How would you go about doing the boot. With 3 other OS's

Hi, I've in my laptop 2000 prof and 2000 server in the same partition. I've installed Linux in a second partition using GRUB. My problem is that I cannot start any of 2000 os, it starts directly the GRUB and I cannot see any 2000 options. Anyone knows how to do a triple boot using GRUB with this configuration? Thanks in advanced!