Re: booting linux on a dual-os system

What's your distribution? Most likely you need to reinstall GRUB, but 
that is if you are using GRUB (or is lilo?).

Well let me know which distro and we can probably figure out a way to do 
that easily.

Fred

BEN SAMANI wrote:
> I have been running both linux and windows xp on my machine. The
> two installed in two separate partitions. Just recently I had to
> reinstall xp (of course in its own partition.) When you install
> xp, unlike linux, it rudely removes all non-Windows entries in
> the C:\boot.ini file; so when i boot my machine now i only have
> one choice, and that's the xp. in the c:\boot.ini, the relevant
> entry looks like this now:
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(0)\WINDOWS="MS Windows XP Prof."
>
> I remember before the reinstall, there was a similar line
> corresponding to the linux OS, which is now missing. That
> line/entry is what I'm looking for.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ben
>
> --- Fred <fred-GQxX53Lv/[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> Can u tell us more about your problem? what is installed and
>> working,
>>
>> what is not?
>>
>> Fred
>>
>> BEN SAMANI wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On a dual-OS system (windows-xp & linux), what line should be
>>> added in c:\boot.ini to allow you boot linux?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>