Zend Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 Ok, heres what i have and heres what i want to do.....ive tried a few things without much success. I have 2 36GB raptor SATA hard drives, i want windows on the primary channel(ID0) and linux on the secondary(ID1). I want to be able to use the windows boot loader, and have an option to boot into linux. I think i have to edit boot.ini and copy a certain linux boot file to C:\ or something but im not sure. As of now i have my primary drive running linux, so that it is the default boot device........and i have windows on the secondary......but it will not boot into that device if i select it from the grub boot menu(yes i have edited grub.conf to reflect the correct device) but it just sits there after it posts "chainloader +1" and does nothing, im guessing it may have somehting to do with NTFS? Please just tell me how i can accomplish this setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 I have always dual booted with lilo. You will find windex to be uncooperative with booting anything other than other windex os's. I recommend using a boot loader like lilo or grub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zend Posted March 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 I would but i cant make lilo OR grub work with my current config. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 11, 2004 Report Share Posted March 11, 2004 are you mapping the hd to fool win into thinking it's on the primary master? http://www.mcc.ac.uk/grub/grub_13.html#SEC87 http://www.mcc.ac.uk/grub/grub_4.html#SEC21 http://www.mcc.ac.uk/grub/grub_toc.html Here's how to use the nt_loader http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=11887 works just fine for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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