[ltp] 600E - Upgrading to Win 2000

[Tod Harter]

Yeah, and even with obsolete systems you're best off with GRUB. Really its by 
far the best boot loader around. You can boot anything, and if you feel like 
it you can drop right down into editing mode right at the boot prompt and 
muck with your boot options. If your brave enough you can even reinstall or 
reconfigure GRUB without ever booting at all! 

For ordinary users though, its just the fact that it is possible to have it 
do things like change which partitions are active on the fly thats cool :o).

On Monday 29 April 2002 11:16, Tim Prince wrote:
> On Sunday 28 April 2002 11:03, Chris Dailey wrote:
> Since you're top-posting, I'll follow suit.  You've been warned about BM;
> there's no reason to use it unless you are using multiple obsolete versions
> of Windows, and plenty of reasons not to do so.  grub works fine when run
> off the NTLDR boot.ini, if you're interested in workable alternatives to
> the previous suggestion.
>
> > Appreciate the information. I anticipated the problem and decided to use
> > Partition Magic. Their bootloader looks as if it will do the job, if not
> > I'll try your way.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, James Holden wrote:
> > > Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:45:55 +0100
> > > From: James Holden <james@microcosmos.co.uk>
> > > Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
> > > To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
> > > Subject: Re: [ltp] 600E - Upgrading to Win 2000
> > >
> > > For things like this I'd recommend getting and learning how to use the
> > > GRUB bootloader. The Win2k install will trash your boot sector (how
> > > rude). Grub can be run from a floppy and can be used to boot arbitrary
> > > partitions/kernels etc.... You can then instruct grub to install itself
> > > as your main bootloader. The procedure would be something like this....
> > >
> > > * Create and test a GRUB disk.
> > > * Print out relevant parts of the docs. They won't be any good if you
> > > can't boot your machine to look at them when you're half way though the
> > > process! Make sure you're familiar with the way your disk is
> > > partitioned, ie Linux on /dev/hda5 for example.
> > > * Install Win2k, prepare to lose LILO or whatever you're using.
> > > * Use the Grub floppy to boot your linux install.
> > > * Save Win2k's boot sector to a small file with something like this: dd
> > > if=/dev/hda of=2kboot.dat bs=512 count=1
> > > * Copy this file somewhere into your Linux partition. Grub doesn't
> > > understand NTFS. * Use your GRUB boot disk to re-install itself to your
> > > hard disk. * Manually boot Linux, eg:
> > >            root hd(0,4)
> > >            kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5
> > >            boot
> > > * Set up a config file in /boot/grub to allow you to boot Win2k and
> > > RedHat.
> > >
> > >
> > > It sounds complicated, but all you're doing is replacing the Win2k
> > > bootloader with one which is aware of Linux (or most other OS's for
> > > that matter). Grub is great because you can boot partitions off your
> > > hard disk using a floppy. You can also create a boot script for the
> > > menu entries to do things like hide partitions or re-map them. You can
> > > get 2 different versions of DOS running on 1 PC by making GRUB shuffle
> > > them around so DOS doesn't get confused, for instance.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > James
> > >
> > > Quoting Chris Dailey <badger@eskimo.com>:
> > > > Thinking of upgrading my Windoze 98 to Win 2000 pro. HAs anybody done
> > > > this and have you run into any problems? My hardrive is partitioned
> > > > into two 4.7 gig sections. One having 98 the other RedHat 7.2

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