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win2k/linux boot - best way
Name: charlie Date: May 21, 2003 at 06:49:40 Pacific OS: win 2000 CPU/Ram: celeron 600MHz/320Mb
Comment:
to help others avoid the problems I had after putting lilo/grub on the mbr of a dual boot system, I advise keeping the boot loaders separate by using ntldr to run grub/lilo. for instructions see: http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/ntldr.php
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