Windows XP/Linux dual boot

[Skawttey]

When dual booting windows XP and linux using two seperate hard drives, does lilo need its own partition? The partitioning for linux has always been the thing that confuses me most about installing it. If someone would tell me which partitions i need to dual boot linux and windows XP it would be very much appreciated. Thanks much.

Scott

 

[Tiger]

It works with Win2K Pro and Mandy 8.x
Linky

 

[XBoxLPU]

Do what the FAQ says.. i just did that and it works!

I am dual booting XP and RH 7.2

Also, during linux setup, I let it do auto partition of my second hardrive.

 

[Skawttey]

So windows XP has a boot loader like windows 2000? i was not aware of that. thanks.

 

[Electro]

LILO is easy when you have two seperate drives. Put LINUX on the primary master and Windows on another drive located else where. Yes, windows can be located on a secondary controller but only if you installed drivers and you know the drivers are working properly. Then set your motherboard to boot to the primary master. This works for my computer when I installed Windows XP. I recently uninstall Windows XP because sound card drivers weren't yet supported and video card drivers keeps giving me infinite looping errors. Well sound card drivers were supported but I want 5.1 channels that Win98 gives me instead of two channels.

LILO goes on your master boot record. The LINUX how tos explains about how LILO works and its uses.

Windows XP is a combination of Windows 98 and Windows NT. You get the IRQ sharing feature and vast hardware support of Win98. Other features of Windows XP you get more security, good memory management, and good stablity of Windows NT or Windows 2000.

Don't forget Windows ME has Boot.ini too.

 

[Skawttey]

I just searched my hard drive for boot.ini, and the only thing it found was the backup file for it. I do not have any files hidden, do i have to create the boot.ini file in C:\?

 

[Skawttey]

Edit: double post

 

[XBoxLPU]

Go to folder options and than "view"

Make sure "Show hidden files" is checked and also un-check "Hide Protected Operating Sytem files"

The boot.ini is in C:\

 

[Skawttey]

Thankyou for pointing out the fact that i am completely retarded. Windows is too safe, there are too many boxes to check to take control of your system.