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July 13, 2003 at 10:42 AM
mantu11111

dual boot win2k & unix

by mantu11111 . Updated 22 years, 11 months ago

Hi everybody

This is a strange problem i am having in my win2K pro after I messed up a bit

A little bit history

I have a PIII 866 MHz, 20 GB, 128 MB with win2K pro and SCO Open server 5.0.5 installed on different partitions.

I have tried my bit but was unable to provide a boot loader for dual booting

Instead I have a bit clumsy way of switching between OS’es

I run fdisk as root of unix and then activate the partition for c: drive of Win2k for booting into Windows

To boot into unix from win2k I follow

1. Right Click “My Computer”
2. Select Manage
3. Expand Storage
4. Select Disk Management
5. Select the partition corresponding to UNIX and activate it by right clicking it

Phew !!

Can anybody of u geeksoffer some simpler way to have a neat looking boot loader like the one u have in Linux or atleast a simple menu choice like the one u have in having 2 different windows versions on the same HD

BTW I would not like to have my hard disk formatted and start from scratch

Reply soon

Mantu

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