RE: [lug] Tri-Boot

["JoAnn Neumaier" <fsjn@gci.net>]

Matt,
I have tried to unsubscribe from the LUG list through the web site to no
avail.  Can you help me?

JoAnn
fsjn@uaf.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: matt barkdull [mailto:mattb@iarc.uaf.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 10:56 AM
To: uaflug@linux0.cs.uaf.edu
Subject: Re: [lug] Tri-Boot


I tried that order, but Windows gave me a "ntldr not found" error.

Since I did not create a boot or rescue floppy for Windows 2000, I
ended up having to reinstall it, which basically gave me the order
Win98->Linux->Win2k

I later discovered a freeware utility that would have fixed the ntldr
problem.



>(all spelling and grammar errors due to short things eating my feet)
>
>   That is one method of getting w2k,98, and linux going.. doesn't need to
>be  as hard as you made it though.  Microsoft likes to think alot of
>themselves which makes the process harder than it should be.
>   All DOS, 95, and 98 installs blow away anything in the MBR  and put
>themselves in place.  When NT came out Microsoft saw that people  wanted
>to dual boot 9x and NTs, so they allowed NT to have a boot manager,  and
>allowed NT to sit on the non-active bootable partition (because that  is
>where 9x/dos would have to live).  But NT's boot loader is only aware  of
>microsoft OSs.. so anything else gets blown away (i've heard it is
>possible to use the boot loader for non-microsoft OSs but while reading
>thorugh the 'summary' I grew old and died).
>   Anyway, keeping the egocentricity of microsoft in mind, installing your
>box for dual/triple/quad booting is pretty easy.  If your starting with a
>clean machine:
>	install 98,
>	install w2k,
>	install linux
>    Linux with the all-(most)-powerful lilo will allow you to load 1) linux
>and 2) windows (which would be the NT loader w/ w2k and 98 in it).
>
>Dont know why I felt the need to share this, but hopefully it will be
>helpful to those like me (loading linux, freebsd, w2k, 98, and another
>linux).