Re: booting linux on a dual-os system

It's SUSE.

Thanks,

Ben
--- Fred <fred-GQxX53Lv/[email protected]> wrote:

> 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,
> >>>       
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