Where did I go wrong?

[Swordfish]

Hi all,
Ok the thing goes like this... I just kind of got tired of lookin at the penguin one fine day so thought how nice it would be to add a Linux Boot menu option in Win2k boot menu.

So after searchin for a while I got to this page
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader-5.html
It turned out to be much simpler...
all i did was at the shell prompt in linux

did...--> dd if=/dev/hda10 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1

then copied the bootsect.lnx file from "/" and to primary partition in dos. Opened Boot.ini and then just wrote one more line

like C:\bootsect.lnx="Linux 7.1"
saving everything and then rebooting i selected Linux and then pressed enter

what I saw was this " LIL-/" thats it and the system just won't go further. i thought i had made some mistake some were but i tried that again and again but it doesn't workout, remains same at all try's?

Any clue why it won't ?:confused:

hda10 is the linux native part..i mean it has all the boot files and otherstuff.i have only one swap part and one boot part for linux (total=2;) ) .Win2k resides in c, (i.e hda1...then i have hda5,6,7,8 all logical dos partitions and 9 is linux swap)

does it work with only 2 drives..imean if you load linux in the second and Win2k resides in 1st?

[Swordfish]

ok i just worked that out...it may sound silly but all i changed this time before creatin that file"bootlin.lnx" was changing the timeout value in /etc/lilo.conf to '0' and then did that boot.ini thing and everythings working just fine.

what i got was at the NT boot loader menu option
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Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows
Redhat Linux 7.1
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sorry to trouble ya all out there perhaps i shouldn't have posted it in the first place....anyway nice thing to do.:t

[BipolarBill]

I feel better now. :confused:

Let me know when you dump Linux and go Win2K all the way, OK? I need ammo for my "conversations" with Otheos. :p

[Swordfish]

ya, sure will ...but let me play with this toy for some time ....then will think about that...hey I just love doing somethin on my only system now and then ..the system is still in one piece:D ...when i have finished, will try an hand on some other oses too..;)

[rick42]

Well Bill, I have been using DOS 2-6, Win 3.11, 95, 98, 2K. I like W2K the best of the windows "OS".

OS/2 (between DOS and v3) was a real OS for the PC, but IBM did a bad marketting job. I worked on 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 and still found it usefull, not bug ridden.

But for a real OS, Unix is a heck of a lot better. For personal computers, Linux is the way. AND its free and takes up a lot less resources.
I have been using Caldera and Red Hat variations and started to put in Debian.

Swordfish: besides LILO, also try GRUB.

:t

[Swordfish]

rick42...can GRUB help create a Linux entry in the Win2k boot menu? I have not used it yet and the page that i found out doesn't mention anything about that

The page link is

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+Win9x+Grub-HOWTO/

and it mentions that the requirement is Win9x, so i was thinkin whether it would work with win2k.does it load a different boot loader with the options, since i wanted the linux option to appear in the NT boot menu.

anyway thanx for the information.:)

all i know is that BOOTPART is one tool that does all the great things on nt boot menu.

[BipolarBill]

Linux will be a "real" OS when you can "install" applications and drivers, configure network settings in a linear fashon, be able to view drives as drives instead of folders and connectto a Windows network without a coder present.

The services in Win2K that eat up the resources are what makes it so easy to set up and run.

I could build a 1920 Ford pickup for $3000 these days. It would be reliable and get the job done. It would be an absolute bear to drive, unfortunately. If you're on a budget and don't mind getting your hands dirty and fingers smashed, buy a 1920 pickup. I'd rather have a 2002 model.

[rick42]

I have GRUB loaded on my machine. It was added on top of W2K automatically when I added Red Hat. My two entries in GRUB are Linux and Windows2000.

When I got to getting fancier with Windows, then I had to edit Window's boot.ini file. I needed to point NT to a different kernel program for Win2K. I didn't try using Grub to do this, since I had to point to a windows exe file.

So now I have two menus to get my variation of Windows loaded.

If you want to get everything on one menu, including multiple W2K entries, W98, Linux 1, linux 2, etc., then try XOSL (www.xosl.org). I use this on another of my machines. It works great.