Dredd 0 Posted January 16, 2001 Anyone have a clue how to add Linux to my already existing Windows 2000 boot up menu. I don't want to use Lilo or other boot up menu's, but I am not sure how to do so. I plan on running Mandrake Linux. Any advise would help! ------------------ Dredd Webmaster of DreddNews http://www.dreddnews.com Share this post Link to post
ewaite 0 Posted January 16, 2001 If you are going to use Mandrake linux then I think you should use "Grub" which is one of the boot loaders included with Mandrake version 7.x . During the install make sure you select to config another OS (very easy). I tried a couple of times to make the Win2k bootloader work but always had problems with the extra kernal parameters I wanted to use. If you forgot to setup Win2k in Grub during the install you can open up the file /boot/grub/menu.lst in linux and add the following lines: title Windows 2000 root (hd0,0) //change this if not on first partition of first IDE HD makeactive chainloader +1 -Evan Waite [This message has been edited by ewaite (edited 16 January 2001).] Share this post Link to post
Dredd 0 Posted January 17, 2001 Thanks I will go ahead and just use Grub then since I don't want to risk screwing up my other OS's. Thanks again, ------------------ Dredd Webmaster of DreddNews http://www.dreddnews.com Share this post Link to post
DocSilly 0 Posted January 17, 2001 Otherwise use this lil howto, that's how I added Linux to my multiboot a while ago: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html Share this post Link to post
