“Switch from one operating system to another – without manual intervention – by following these step-by-step instructions for enabling a dual-boot machine. Duplicate this setup for running both Linux and Windows on your own machine with the scripts provided with this article.”
Nice guide – I was just wondering recently about trying something like this on my PC for remote rebooting.
One thing I’d say is not to bother using FAT32 for the boot partition though. Man I just hate that FS, and nowadays I place more trust in the Ext2 driver for Windows ( ext2fsd.sf.net ) for my partition-sharing needs. Don’t know if Ext2 has a minimum size, but I put mine at about 50MB with no probs.
http://www.fs-driver.org
This is writable.
Good article.
If you’re looking for resources on multi-booting Windows and more than _one_ UNIX (Linux) though, here’s a quick “link-list” I posted a while back that points to resources for multi-booting _two_ opensource UNIXes (Linux and OpenSolaris) and Windows.
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/eric_boutilier?entry=solaris_x86_g…
Eric Boutilier
(http://tinyurl.com/n59fk)
OpenSolaris
(http://opensolaris.org/os/blogs)
Dont forget to put lilo before the 1024 cylinder or it wont work!
those were the days
I just have 2 menu.lst files, and a script in ubuntu and a bat in XP that copy these files to /boot/grub. That way, i just run the script/bat, and then reboot.
!!!! !!!! MULTIBOOT Parttions HELL – Do you Dare???
I have already installed several multiboot PCs, but I am trying new things and systems.
I DO believe that what I am trying could be useful to anyone trying multiboot. So please Share your opinions and experiences on these cases
Can anyone enlighten me/US on these hypothetic situations, and tell, how many, and what kind of partitions he/she would make:
– Can you share a SWAP partition between Some Linux sytems an Solaris or OpenSolaris distros??? Is there any problem for that?
– How can you install/partition, in 1 hard disk, several Linux distros from the same origin (I mean with that debian and 2 or 3 more debian based distros; OR Gentoo and and 2 or 3 more debian based distros; OR Mandrake and 2 or 3 more debian based distros), without the risk of one overwriting the others???
– How can you install/partition, in 1 hard disk, several Linux distros from DIFFERENT origin (I mean with that debian and 2 or 3 more debian based distros; AND Gentoo and and 2 or 3 more debian based distros; AND Mandrake and 2 or 3 more debian based distros), without the risk of one overwriting the others???
– How can you install/partition, in 1 hard disk, several Linux distros from DIFFERENT origin (I mean with that debian and 2 or 3 more debian based distros; AND Gentoo and and 2 or 3 more debian based distros; AND Mandrake and 2 or 3 more debian based distros), and 1 or several FreeBSD, or BSD Distros, without the risk of one overwriting the others???
-HOW to partition the hard disk for an install of Linux and Solaris, and an OpenSolaris Distro at the same time, without the risk of one overwriting the others???
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-HOW to partition the hard disk for an install of Linux and Solaris, and/or an OpenSolaris Distro at the same time, and Mac OSX in an intel PC???
-HOW to partition the hard disk for an install of Linux and a BSD Distro and Mac OSX in a PPC Apple Computer, without the risk of one overwriting the others???
-HOW to partition the hard disk for an install of Linux and Solaris, and an OpenSolaris Distro at the same time, in an intel PC, without the risk of one overwriting the others???
-HOW to partition the hard disk for an install of Linux and Solaris, and an OpenSolaris Distro at the same time, in an SPARC, SPARC 64 SUN PC, without the risk of one overwriting the others???
-HOW to partition the hard disk for an install of DOS or FreeDOS, and 1 or several Linux and a BSD Distros in an intel Computer, without the risk of one overwriting the others???
-HOW to partition the hard disk for an install of DOS or FreeDOS, and WINDOWS, and 1 or several Linux and a BSD Distros in an intel Computer, without the risk of one overwriting the others???
What I Mean is specific examples:
– HOW many pattions and name it,
– /, /root, /home, /swap, /boot, /var, /tmp, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2, Ext3, Raiser.. etc, etc ,etc
– space of each partition,
– File System of the partitions,
– and for all the system I would like to contemplate at least 1 exchange Partition/s betwen the different OSs, and 1 BIG Stock Parttion. in The PC.
– Problems you have encountered and how to avoid them…
– If you want to add other Os, like Syllable, ReactOS, Menuet, BeOS, Haiku, OS2 or whatever.. fell free to do it.
– etc.
HMMM… I guess that’s it .. LOL
Please Share your ideas and experiences so anyone can compare with thier ow, for the benefit of any reader…
THANKS !!!
Angel
and how is this any functionally different from just letting GRUB remembering your last OS choice?
Because if you booted into Windows, and want to boot into Linux, then remember the last OS choice is no good. I tend to control my desktop from my corporate laptop (which I treat as a thin client), so I don’t want to go into another room to interact with grub manually.