Dual boot system

[Anthony J. Gabrielson]

Hello,
	System Commander really makes life easier with dual booting NT &
Linux.  NT's loader is really bad, LILO is good but NT has problems with
it.  I find it much easier just to use system commander.

Hope thats a help,
Anthony

On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Randall Hofland wrote:

> Hello;
> 
>     I finally gave up on trying to set up SuSE 6.3 for a dual boot
> system. Although my original clean install of 6.3 worked flawlessly on a
> K6 system except for the video card which failed with both LINUX and NT
> (same problem with several cards suggests a problem with the AGP port
> itself), all of my recent efforts at installing a dual boot system on a
> dual Pentium system using multiple partitions on a SCSI and IDE drive
> combination have led to much wasted time.
>     Plus I now face the possibly of corrupted boot disks for both NT and
> SuSE as neither even boots up for a clean install: SuSE hangs during the
> uncompress/install step in YAST 1 or 2 (with and without the boot disk)
> and NT has similar problems now with the boot disk (probably an NT
> modification of the boot disk since I forgot to write protect the disk
> before attempting the install). I am now unable to get either hard drive
> to install either of the two OSes. Makes me wonder if NT has done
> something to my drives despite multiple efforts to get SuSE to
> repartition the drives. Please note that DOS 6.X installs without any
> problems but I have not yet tried Windows 3.1.
>     I have instead started trying to get the Mandrake 7 system to boot
> up on my dual Pentium boxes with fresh 9G UW-SCSI drives and seem to be
> having somewhat better luck at this (a server install in progress on one
> machine and nearly complete as I write). Has anyone successfully created
> a dual boot system with Mandrake 7? I'd like to boot up NT and LINUX
> using LILO on the workstation mentioned above using the SCSI drive for
> BOOT and SWAP partitions and the IDE for ROOT.
>     I'd really like to have a dual boot system rather than setting up
> separate boxes.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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