Configure Windows Boot LoaderForum: User Feedback Topic: Configure Windows Boot Loader started by: sankarv Posted by sankarv on Aug. 08 2006,05:02
Is it possible to boot DSL from Windows bootloader. If so How?
Posted by kerry on Aug. 08 2006,06:09
is it installed on a linux partion that windows can't see or a fat partion?
Posted by sankarv on Aug. 08 2006,06:14
no linux is in hda7 (linux partition) windows is in hda1 and hda5.Without grub or lilo how will you configure windows boot loader for DSL. Posted by kerry on Aug. 08 2006,07:54
You don't, if it's a linux partition windows can't see it. It's Just like if you boot up windows and look at the drives it shows, it won't have the linux ones. long story short, you can't boot it if windows won't see it.
Posted by sankarv on Aug. 08 2006,08:23
any way how can we install in fat partition . normally DSL comes with ext2 or ext3. I dont know much about the syslinux version. I mean, in normal DSL is there a way by which we can have a dual boot of linux and windows in windows boot loader?
Posted by mikshaw on Aug. 08 2006,14:42
You CAN configure your system to boot Linux from Windows boot.ini, even if Linux is installed on a linux partition that Windows itself cannot read. Windows doesn't need to be able to read the partition in order to boot it...DOS can't read NTFS partitions, but it can still boot them.The problem is that it is a complex task compared to installing and configuring Grub. You can find a number of tutorials quite easily with a google search. Posted by sankarv on Aug. 10 2006,03:48
thankx
Posted by teitoku on Aug. 10 2006,03:59
It's easy. Install the boot loader to your LINUX partition, not the MBR, not windows. Save it to a file with (don't quote me on this/complain if it's wrong) "dd if=/dev/hda7 of=/whereever/whatever.bin bs=512 count=1"Then email that to yourself, put it on a disc, whatever, so windows can have the file. In windows, put the file in your system root (C:\) and in your C:\boot.ini, make a line that says c:\whatever.bin = "Linux" |