Dennis Kibbe wrote: > > --- Victor Odhner wrote: > > From: Victor Odhner > Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:48:28 -0700 > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Booting Linux from Linux > > I am about to install Kanotix rooted at /dev/hda6, with XP/ntfs on hda1 > and fat32 on hda5. > > > > I want this to have exactly zero impact on the boot sector, to begin > with. So I will tell it to put grub on /dev/hda6, the root partition, > rather than on the boot segment. > > At the moment, the floppy is not working on the box in question, so I > can't boot this installation in any of the normal ways. > > > Google on "Windows XP boot.ini". XP can boot multiple OSs by editing this simple text file. The MS Knowledgebase article is here. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289022 > > Dennisk > --------------------------------------------------- I'd definitely go this route and tailor XP boot loader to load Linux (haven't seen that one done yet). Good find (or memory ;) ), Dennis. FWIW, Fedora (and I presume CentOS) has a rescue option on the install disks which finds a linux partition and can boot to it. I don't know how well (if) it works across distros though, and I wouldn't want to use it regularly. -- -Eric 'shubes' "There is no such thing as the People; it is a collectivist myth. There are only individual citizens with individual wills and individual purposes." -William E. Simon (1927-2000), Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977) "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237 **************************************************** This message has been scanned using Contraxx Technology Group mail server v8.0.3 and is virus free. Message sent from Mail Server 3 **************************************************** --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss