On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:34:27AM -0600, Monty J. Harder wrote:
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:47:51 -0600, Richard A. Franklin [email protected] wrote:
Then I would use (gasp) Windows XP anyway, perhaps in a dual-boot environment.
It's not really difficult to set up the XP boot loader to chain to LILO or GRUB. The trick is to not install the Linux boot loader to the MBR. Instead put it in /dev/hda3 or whatever, and dd the first sector of that partition to a file, and add a reference to that file in boot.ini:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect c:\lilohda3.bs="LInux LOader on hda3"
The only aggravation is that if I recompile my kernel, I have to repeat the process.
Yeah, that's what finally led me to abandon that approach--I just got tired of the rigamarole and was too lazy to script it and test it and rewrite it to the point where it wasn't a pain anymore. But that was all with LILO. I'd guess that one could avoid a lot of the hassle with GRUB these days, but I am but a bean when it comes to using GRUB still.