[techtalk] Dual-boot Win2K and Linux

[aprilk]

Tania Morell <Tania-Maria at rocketmail.com> wrote:

>I've been struggling with this myself these past few
>weeks.  In fact, I spent the whole weekend trying to
>install  win3.1/dos and linux on my 486 and get System
>Commander to boot both.  It'll boot windows but not
>linux.  I know that it's doable though because I've
>done it before on that machine.
>It was difficult to figure out, though... I should
>have written down the procedures many moons ago.
>There is one sure way of doing this, however.
>Install win2000 first, then linux second and configure
>lilo to boot win2000.
>
>Then, when you boot your machine..  you should get the
>"lilo:" prompt and then you can key in the os you want
>booted.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>-Tania M.
>
> 
For System Commander just tell Linux to put lilo in the root partition and then System Commander will find it and it will work. I use it like that all the time.

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