![]() ![]() With easybcd go to add/remove entries, select linux name it and enter the hard driveĪnd partition. If that is not enough, one can use bcdedit to add linux to Vista's BCD as well. Where xx is your linux boot partition (hda7) for me and /mnt/floppy is where your floppy is mounted and where the bootsector is temporarily saved.Ĭopy that bootsector (mixboot.dos) to the C drive and add C:\mixboot.dos="PCLinuxOS" to boot.ini Type dd if=/dev/hdaxx bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/floppy/mixboot.dos If you have a flavor of linux installed, boot to linux and open a terminal. You will have been told the XP bootmgr cannot load non-windows OS's. Note that I also boot PCLinuxOS from this. I have not been able to make the Grub4Dos entry the default in boot.ini. When you see the boot menu select Grub4Dos and take it from there. The 2 copies of Grub4Dos are just for convenience. ![]() Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(13)\winnt="MS Windows 2000 Prof-N" /fastdetect Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(14)\windows="XP on O ECS" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn /usepmtimer Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(8)windows="XP Home on I ECS" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn /usepmtimer Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(11)\windows="Windows XP on L ECS" /NoExecute=OptIn /fastdetect /usepmtimer The current boot drive MBR is not touched or replaced.Įdit boot.ini and add: C:\grldr.mbr="Grub4Dos" to itĭefault=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(11)\windows Note: we are NOT installing an MBR, merely copying grldr.mbr to the boot (system) drive. OS's in the extended partitioninclude XPhome, XP pro, Win2000, Vista32, Vista64, PCLinuxOS.Īfter a week of intense trial and error I found a way that works for me and here is the HOWTO:ĭownload grub4dos and unzip to a new folder.Ĭopy grldr.mbr and grldr to the boot © drive The primary partition (system drive) C: is only 900 MB and holds only system commander and the various OS startup files and DOS 6.2 The boot HDD has 1 primary partition and 1 extended partition with multiple logical drives. The method above replaces that MBR and loses the ability to boot the many OS's on my boot HDD. Unfortunately that method did not work, because I use System Commander to boot multiple OS's and System Commander uses it's own MBR. Spacesurfer's widely referenced post really got me going. ![]()
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