How to Dual Boot Windows 2000 and Linux (Specifically Redhat 7.0)
This document is a quick outline of how to dual-boot a Windows NT/2000
operating system with a Linux Operating System. This document will assume
that you have a single hard drive partitioned into two sections, however, the
process for using two hard drives is very similar. This guide will assume
you have already setup your partitions and have installed Windows NT/2000 on one
partition and Redhat 7.0 on the other.
First thing you need to be aware of is that Windows NT/2000 has to own the
MBR (Master boot Record). So, when you install Linux be sure to have LILO
installed on the first part of the partition, NOT in the master boot
record, or this method of dual-boot will not work.
Now that Windows NT/2000 and Redhat are both installed correctly we will setup
the NT-Loader to boot linux as well as NT/2000. To do this we need a dos
boot disk (a Windows 98 boot disk works fine, or you can go to a command prompt
and type format a: /s. This will create a bootable dos disk.)
Insert your linux boot disk and boot into linux. Once you have booted
insert the dos boot disk and type:
dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
cp /bootsect.lnx /mnt
umount /mnt
Now, leaving the floppy in your drive, reboot the computer. at the a:
type copy bootsect.lnx c:
Then type edit c:oot.ini
add the following line to the bottom of the file:
c:ootsect.lnx="LINUX"
Save this file and close it. Next type:
attrib +s +h c:ootsect.lnx
That's it, take out the boot disks and reboot your computer, whenthe NT
loader comes up you should see LINUX, selecting it will run LILO which will load
linux..
One more thing you can do if you don't want to have to push enter when LILO
comes up is go into linux and type
pico /etc/lilo.conf
Change the timeout value to 0 and you LILO will begin loading linux
instantly.
