Booting Linux with W2K bootloader?

[Technoid]

I found a Page on windows2000faq.com describing how to do this ( with ofcoarse a lot of commen't on how yucky linux was )...
But it seems to have been pulled and I'm wondering if anyone knows how to or knows of any other site that describes how to???

[lecter]

Do you have a working link?

[Hefa]

hmm.. just install the bootloader on some other place than MBR (/dev/hda4 for exsample), then copy the bootloader to a file.

exsample :
dd if=/dev/hda4 of=bootsect.lin bs=512 count=1

then copy bootsect.lin file to c:\ (or something like that)
and add a line to boot.ini (not sure if there should be '=' between filename and entryname..) :
c:\bootsect.lin "Linux!"

and there you go..
every time you change the bootsector you must copy it again to c: (meaning every time you build a new kernel and so on.. )

I think that if you make a bootsector file that points directly to hda4 then you wouldn't have to copy the bootsector every time to a new file.. (just an idea..)

[Technoid]

Thanx Hefa

[runderwo]

Why not just use LILO or Grub to boot win2k?

[Hefa]

Why not just use LILO or Grub to boot win2k?

Because it would be too easy..

[The PIT]

Have you seen what happens when one your drives goes for a walk. You get your screen full of lilo error messages and you can't boot into any OS.
This is one of the reasons it's better to edit your bootloader and then if a hard drive disappears at least you maybe able to boot into another os depending of course which hard drive disappears.

[runderwo]

With LILO, you may have that problem since it depends on BIOS drive order. But I don't see that problem existing with GRUB. Even if it can't figure out how to boot the system, it has an interactive serial-aware console built in.