August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
29h 45m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Third Edition
by Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Jessica P. Hekman, Stephen Figgins
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Dual Booting Linux and Windows NT/2000
As we said earlier, when you run Windows NT, its boot loader expects to be the one in charge; therefore, the normal way to dual boot Windows NT and Linux is to add Linux as an option on the NT boot menu. The information in this section also applies to Windows 2000, which uses the NT loader.
To accomplish this, you need to provide the NT loader with a copy of the Linux boot sector. Here’s how you do that on a computer running Windows NT with an NTFS filesystem (note that Windows NT should be installed on your system already). See the NT OS Loader+Linux mini-HOWTO for more information and other alternatives.
You should have a Linux boot floppy available so that, if necessary, you can boot Linux before the NT boot loader has been modified. You also should have a DOS-formatted floppy to transfer the boot sector to the Windows NT partition. If LILO is already installed, you may need to modify /etc/lilo.conf as described later. Otherwise, you’ll either install LILO as part of the Linux installation, or you can install it with the QuickInst script that comes with LILO. Once LILO is installed, and you have a configuration file, you can set up the system for dual booting.
Note that the following instructions assume your Linux partition is on /dev/hda2. If Linux is on another partition, be sure to replace /dev/hda2 in the following examples with the correct partition.
Specify the Linux root partition as your boot device. If you are editing /etc/lilo.conf ...
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