boot setup?

**Sandwich** · February 5th, 2003, 07:26 PM

NOw that I've given up the idea of raid on this machine, I've put 3 80Gb HDD's on the promise ata100 controller. I installed win98se on drive C, and WinXP on drive D. It, so far is working well. My ?, Can I add SUSE Linux to the third HDD and do a triple Boot? Is triple booting these three Operating systems possible?

**cookin chef** · February 6th, 2003, 01:09 AM

Yes it is possible to have 3 os's on one system.

You just have to install then in the right order to get the proper boot options. Linux will have it's LILO loader with a boot menu and should include your windows o/s's as options as well. Just as long as you do the partitioning correctly.

**Radical Dreamer** · February 6th, 2003, 09:57 AM

Yes it will work, just install the 2 windows systems, then suse and if given the option use grub, it may not be as pretty, but I have had better luck with it when using ntfs file system

**Sandwich** · February 6th, 2003, 06:22 PM

Thanks guys, I'll let you know how it turns out. Probably won't get to it for a week or so tho.

**Sandwich** · February 20th, 2003, 07:41 PM

well guys, I'm in Linux, but now I can't seem to boot into windows!!!??

**kato2274** · February 20th, 2003, 07:55 PM

Originally posted by Sandwich
well guys, I'm in Linux, but now I can't seem to boot into windows!!!??

you have to modify the config of the boot loader. LILO is easy to do and you can do it from within KDE.

don't know how to do it for grub. I'm a newbie too.

**Sandwich** · February 20th, 2003, 08:16 PM

Well as usual I'm ahead of the forum in my actions. I reinstalled 98 and I have my XP back!

**Sandwich** · February 20th, 2003, 08:31 PM

In fact I've lost nothing! Except I cannot boot to linux!

**kato2274** · February 20th, 2003, 08:58 PM

Originally posted by Sandwich
In fact I've lost nothing! Except I cannot boot to linux!

you're in a vicious cycle my grilled cheese friend.

you can't boot into linux now because MS has taken over the MBR where your linux boot loader resided.

welcome to the joys of multibooting.

have you considered something like vmware or virtualpc to run linux in virtual machine.??

**Sandwich** · February 22nd, 2003, 05:22 PM

Ok, during linux setup it told me this message: The Lilo bootsector has been written to disk. You can instal the old bootsection in the installed system with lilo-u/dev/ude

If I ran that command in linux, would that give me back my right windows option at boot?

**Matridom** · February 22nd, 2003, 05:49 PM

well, there is a way to get windows to load the lilo boot loader. I've done it with debian (with instructions from someone else)

now, these are the steps i've been giving...

during the installation, you WANT to load lilo, but you do NOT want it to write the MBR

mount your c drive and make a folder, say "c:\linux"
the name of the cdrive in linux will be "cdrive"

if you can't mount your cdrive, sustitute the location of /cdrive for /floppy

now, when i mark a ? you need to put in the partion where linux is loaded(numerical)

in the /etc folder (in linux) type "lilo"

type the folowing "dd if=/dev/hda? of=/cdrive/linux/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1"

if this is made to the floppy, boot to windows and copy the boot.lnx to the hard drive

Edit the boot.ini and add a line
c:\linux\boot.lnx="Linux distro name here"

should work from there

**Speed Racer** · February 23rd, 2003, 12:07 PM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by kato2274
[B]you're in a vicious cycle my grilled cheese friend.

hehehe.... funny

**Sandwich** · February 24th, 2003, 09:08 AM

Yes IT was! Funny that is, but I like tenderloins!

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