September 2009
Beginner
942 pages
85h 34m
English
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Dual-Booting Linux and Windows 2000/XP/Vista
As mentioned earlier, when you run Windows, its boot loader expects to be the one in charge; therefore, the standard way to dual-boot Windows and Linux is to add Linux as an option on the Windows boot menu. This section describes how to do that. The information provided here applies to Windows 2000 and Windows XP, which use the Windows NT loader ntldr (so called because it was developed for Windows NT). Windows Vista uses a different boot loader. If you want to set up Vista to dual-boot Linux, you can use the free download EasyBCD by Neosmart Technologies (neosmart.net).
Note again that you do not need the information in this section if your Linux installation software set up the dual-booting for you, which it probably did.
To set up dual booting with the NT loader manually, you need to provide the loader with a copy of the Linux boot sector. We’ll describe how to do that on a computer running Windows with an NTFS filesystem (note that Windows should be installed on your system already). See the “Linux+NT-loader” mini-HOWTO for more information and other alternatives.
You should have a Linux boot floppy or CD available so that if necessary you can boot Linux before the Windows boot loader has been modified. You should also have a DOS-formatted floppy to transfer the boot sector to the Windows partition. If you are running LILO and it is already installed, you may need to modify /etc/lilo.conf as described later. Otherwise, install LILO or ...
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