hi all,
don't know whether this is the right place but here goes,
i have windows 2000 on 1 hdd and mandriva 2008 on another hdd (installed from a live cd)
i want to have one of these options but i am a little stuck
1) to boot mandriva from w2k, i have used a program called bootpart, when run via a command window i get all the available options, but non will edit my boot.ini to show the linux entry,
i tried another program called grub4dos, i copied my menu.lst to a flash drive and put it at the root of 'c', then added this line to my boot.ini
C:\GRLDR="Mandriva", when i re-booted i got to options to boot from so i chose mandriva and got 'error 20' and 'selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by bios'
bootpart - http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
grub4dos - http://grub4dos.jot.com/WikiHome
2) to boot w2k from mandriva, i have searched and searched and it seems i need to add this to my menu.lst
title windows
map (hd0,0)
map (hd1,0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
the problem is i can't seem to edit the file, each time i try it says i don't have permission, i login as root but it still won't let me, i have even tried using an edited spare one (from the flashdrive),
i know i can dual boot with grub in the mbr of windows, i had an episode where i needed to 'ghost' my windows and got 'ntldr is missing', running fixboot and fixmbr from the recovery console didn't work, had to boot from floppy to retrieve important files, then re-install, so i don't want to be put in that position again,
so can anyone help - thanks