On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 14:39:57 GMT,
sridhar nagabhurshana <sridhar.nagabhurshana@verizon.net> wrote:

> Now, how do I boot into RH9? Is Loadlin an option? any info on that
> is helpful. I definitely do NOT want LILO or GRUB or anything to
> change the way my win2k boots. I will be happy booting with a boot
> disk everytime for sometime. I got in rescue mode using the
> installation CD but was not able to create boot disk.

Loadlin isn't an option for NT/W2K/XP not sure about ME.

Assuming lilo.conf exists, edit it, change the line boot=/dev/hdX, to
boot=/tmp/rh9.lnx, execute lilo, copy /tmp/rh9.lnx to your windows
system partition, and modify boot.ini appropriately.

c:\rh9.lnx="Red Hat 9"

As long as you can get rh9.lnx, to the windows partition the filesystem
doesn't matter, when booting, NT/W2K/XP is responsible for reading it,
not linux, so NTFS is not a problem, just a nuisance.

Remember to replace the file on your windows partition whenever you need
to rerun lilo.

I've always found using lilo directly to be easier to maintain, but
YMMV.

I suspect you could do the same with Grub, but since I don't like it
I've never really experimented.


Michael C.
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