G'day,

Well, I thought I would try to dual boot my win2k work laptop with redhat 7.2 as I'm getting the s---s with win2k lately.

Well so I installed the following:

/boot = /dev/hda7
/ = /dev/hda8
/swap = /dev/hda9

The installation of Linux was fine, I didn't install lilo in the MBR however I did install it on /dev/hda7 (/boot).

Then I booted my win2k and used Bootpart to create a bootsector file for my linux partition. This program edited my boot.ini:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Recovery Console" /cmdcons
C:\bootpart\BootLinux.bin="Linux"

So, after a reboot of my box, my laptop should prompt me to boot either win2k or linux...BUT it doesn't!!

It doesn't matter what timeout I set, I still don't see the Win2k Multi-OS loader!

I'm completely stumped!! :-(

Please help...

Thanks,

Akshay Thakur
akshay@optushome.com.au

Havent done the Linux/W2K scene but this link may be of help - courtesy of John Savill's faqs at:

http://www.windows2000faq.com
- instalatios section.

W2L/linux dual-boot link in question:

http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=15683

I don't play with linux much but right now I have mandrake and win2k on my system. Can you boot into linux? Fdisk your mbr and use lilo as boot manager.

If you can't get it to work using Bootpart, you can do it manually (it really isn't very hard)

1)take a fat-formatted floppy (or another fat partition) and keep it handy

2)in linux (preferably not in xwindows) at the command prompt type "dd if=/dev/hda7 of=/bootsect.lnx bs = 512 count = 1". what this does is it does a raw copy of the bootsector and puts it in the file bootsect.lnx

3)mount your floppy disk and copy the file to the disk (make sure you mount it as msdos)

4)in windows copy this file to the C:\ directory

5)reset your boot.ini to its original state (you'll prolly have to manually edit it)
I use Grub so my boot.ini is unchanged and reads:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

6)add the line "C:\bootsect.lnx"="Redhat Linux 7.2" (or whatever you want to call it) after the last line in your boot.ini

7)reboot and enjoy

this is how i used to do it and it never gave me any problems. This also allows you more control and you can make sure things are done right.

G'day,

The main problem is that I never see the Win2k OS loader screen. I don't know how to get this screen to appear.

I can't get into Linux as I couldn't make a bootdisk as my cd-rom shares the same bay as my floppy drive (remember its a laptop).

The question is why I don't see any of the following when my computer Bootups up:

MS OS Loader 4.09

* Microsft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsft Windows 2000 Recovery Console
Linux

Thanks,

Akshay

Do a seaarch in google./com using

Dual-boot Linux and Windows 2000

You'll get snowed under with useful info. on the whole subject..

Try this :
In W2K open control pannel,
Open System icon:
Click Tab " Adanced":
Click startup recovery :
Click and pick which os you like to boot to.

This should fix it if your Linix part is not
bad / boot sector pointer.

You might try Bootpart to copy your old Linix
MDR back to your Partition with Linix, however i read that W2K MUST be installed on
pirmary part if Linix is on computer.

Install should go like this :
Install Linix first to part 2 ,
And W2k next to Part 1.

Hope it helps.

I had the same problem yesterday, I was unable to get the lilo screen to load, basically what I did was used a linux boot disk to load up into linux, then did pico /etc/lilo.conf, edit lilo.conf and comment out the line "Linear" and replace it with "LBA32" then in the linux command prompt type lilo, and it should say
1. Added "Your Linux Label here"
2. Added "Your Win Label here"
Good Luck, email me and let me know of any other troubles.