getting windows to boot linux

[borat]

i haqve had a copy of red hat linux running on my machine but then instaled XP alongside it and it overwrote the red hat boot loader meaning i can no longer access the linux partition, does anybody know of a way which i can get these 2 to dual boot without reinstalling either of them as i cant remember how i got linux to work with my raid 0 promise motherboard chip and cant risk losing my windows data now, many thanks

[The PIT]

I'm trying to get linux to boot from a third hard drive by adding it to winxp boot menu but no go. The drive itself has all the boot information and is active and I can boot it from floppy.
Tried bootpart and another trick but I get invalid drive.

[borat]

how do you boot from a floppy then?

[K6-III]

How about just picking your drive in the BIOS????

[borat]

to clarify i mean where to i get and how do i format the boot floppy.

[Drizzt]

Borat, search over the net for a proggy called MBM. It's the best boot manager ever.

[xortam]

The best boot manager that I've found is removable boot drives.

[dZeus]

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/fhassel_grub_nt.html

installed on my HTPC like that, works like a charm with Windows XP and Gentoo Linux with grub

[Marshmallowman]

PIT it has to be a primary partion to be bootable.

LILO or whatever bootloader RH uses can be installed over the top of the XP loader and all should be still okay.

Other Bootmangers will work but I have always been quite happy with LILO.

[The PIT]

Originally posted by borat
how do you boot from a floppy then?

No idea it works thats why I'm baffled.
I've done the samething at work in the past and managed to manually configure the win2k startup menu.

[The PIT]

Originally posted by Marshmallowman
PIT it has to be a primary partion to be bootable.

LILO or whatever bootloader RH uses can be installed over the top of the XP loader and all should be still okay.

Other Bootmangers will work but I have always been quite happy with LILO.

It is a primary partition. I don't like using lilo becuase if thedrive that has Linux goes down and dies you can't at all. You just get a screen full of Lilo Lilo etc scrolling for ever.

[Marshmallowman]

I have the boot loader on separate partition to both linux and windows , but on the same drive.

Having a boot floppy is good insurance because I can reinstall lilo in a minute when you reinstall windows(since it always overwrites the boot sector on install)

I upgrade linux/windows in place using this config with no problems.

Using the bios to select your boot drive is cool if your OS's are on separate drives.

[WyWyWyWy]

Firstly, Grub (or was it Lilo?) can be installed under Windows I think, I remember reading something about this on a Linux forum.

Secondly, to use XP boot loader... search for bootpart It is your friend.

[The PIT]

Originally posted by WyWyWyWy
Firstly, Grub (or was it Lilo?) can be installed under Windows I think, I remember reading something about this on a Linux forum.

Secondly, to use XP boot loader... search for bootpart It is your friend.

Yup but when bootpart doesn't work.

[WyWyWyWy]

What do you mean doesn't work?