[ltp] 600E - Upgrading to Win 2000

[Tim Prince]

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
> > >
> > >
> > >

-- 
Tim Prince

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