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i was wondering if there is a way to dual boot with windows as the primary operatiing system and have it boot up to windows. and like restart in linux when ever i want to use it.
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dual boot
- Thread starter Busty St. Clair
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Your options are:
1. Add linux to the windows boot loader.
2. Use grub or lilo as a boot loader
3. Use linload.exe to boot linux from windows C:>
A quick google search "windows linux howto", "grub howto", "linload howto" should explain them all.
1. Add linux to the windows boot loader.
2. Use grub or lilo as a boot loader
3. Use linload.exe to boot linux from windows C:>
A quick google search "windows linux howto", "grub howto", "linload howto" should explain them all.
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Under "Dual Boot", this page explains the steps pretty well:
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
Essentially, you are installing linux on some drive partition and copying the boot sector of of the linux partition onto the w2k partition so that windows knows how to boot linux. The tricky parts are repartitioning if you need to, and getting the boot sector from linux into the w2k filesystem -- easy if the drive has a fat32 or a fat partiton since linux can mount those, otherwise if you only have ntfs, you have to format a floppy or format a temporary partition as a fat filesystem.
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
Essentially, you are installing linux on some drive partition and copying the boot sector of of the linux partition onto the w2k partition so that windows knows how to boot linux. The tricky parts are repartitioning if you need to, and getting the boot sector from linux into the w2k filesystem -- easy if the drive has a fat32 or a fat partiton since linux can mount those, otherwise if you only have ntfs, you have to format a floppy or format a temporary partition as a fat filesystem.
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I used partition magic 8 to resize my harddrive then installed Redhat during the install it should detect your windows install and give you a nice little GUI to select your default OS and label both of them accordingly in the GRUB menu. So that when you boot up it'll bring up a screen that asks which OS, if nothing is selected it defaults to Windows or Linux depending on which one you picked during the GRUB configuration.
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what about a hardrive switch i can post a linkif your interested in how to build one.
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Why don't you post it anyway. There may be others who would be interested.pranks7er said:
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My dad did a hard drive switch about 5 years ago on his pc, this way i could run NT4 and he could run Windows 98. Worked out real nice, and i didn't goon up his files when i needed to fdisk and format every week :~
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Just insert a GRUB or LILO line for each OS. It is really easy to do.
On one of my machines I have over a dozen different kernels I can boot into ... I just treat them all as different OS's in my /etc/lilo.conf
On one of my machines I have over a dozen different kernels I can boot into ... I just treat them all as different OS's in my /etc/lilo.conf
