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by bubloo

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I am having HP brio, celeron processor, 128MB sdram. I installed Windows 2000 Professional edition in fat 16 partion. I created 2GB extended partion. In the remain unallocated partion i installed Redhat LInux 7.1. in linux native partion. I am linuxboot disk also. But i am unable to boot linux. Whenever i am switching on the machine it's booting directly in windows 2000. I installed LILO in first sector of boot partion at the time of linux installation. Through linux boot disk i am able to boot linux. What exactly i want is while the system is booting it should ask to boot any one of the operating system. Please give solution to me.. IT's very urgent...

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sakthi

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by brian

Check your bios so that you are booting to a floppy before the hard drive. At least this will work for now until you get lilo functioning as it is supposed too. Unlike Win98/95 Windows2000 supports multiple operating systems and doesn't require itself to be installed on the c: drive. Is there a particular reason yuo use fat 16 instead of 32 or NTFS? Hope this helps.

by krkosiorek

You have to do the following to use NT boot loader to get to linux.

1. Use the boot disk to boot into linux.
2. Copy the boot image from the boot sector to a floppy disk. Run the following at the command prompt to get a copy of the boot sector:

dd if=/dev/hdxx of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1

(hdxx is /boot)
Copy bootsect.lnx to a floppy.

3. Reboot into windows and copy the bootsect.lnx into the root directory.

4. Add the following to c:\boot.ini :
C:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"
5. Reboot and you should see a menu to get into either OS.

Hope that helps.

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