I had an installation of suse linux 7.2 on my system & windows 98. i performed the win98 to 2000 update which overwrote my lilo boot configurations so windows 2000 does not give the option of booting into linux & lilo does not startup, how can i get dual boot going through the windows 2000 boot manager? Cheers

Use a boot disk for SuSE. Either one you've created or just put the install (SuSE) disk in. If you use the Install disk, it will get to the point where it says "Boot to existing Linux partition" or something like that. Once you get back into SuSE, go to YAST, select System, then Bootloader configuration. In there, select your Linux partition for the boot and it will have a choice to go Linux or Windows. That was how I got my Lilo to work again after windows took over (go figure)!

Dual booting using NT_Loader 1) format a dos floppy 2) boot to linux and get to a command prompt. 3) type 'dd if=dev/hda2 bs=512 count=1 of=linux_bs.bin' (assuming hda2 is the linux partition) 4) insert the floppy and mount it with 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy' 5) then type 'mcopy linux_bs.bin a:' 6) reboot into windows 2000 and copy the file linux_bs.bin from the floppy onto the windows partition somewhere (C:\ is fine). 7). Open your boot.ini file with a text editor and add the following line 'c:\linux_bs.bin="Red Hat Linux". 8) make sure that timeout is not 0. ------------ what you are doing here is copying the boot sector of the linux partition to the windows partition and changing the NTLoader configuration file to allow you to boot to that image. Instruction 3 makes the copy of the boot image. Instructions 4 and 5 copy the image to a dos diskette. This system comes in handy also if you try to boot linux on the slave drive and windows on the master drive. I got it off Redhat.com but the url seems to be gone. Luckily I have a hardcopy. Good luck, -Geo