Booting other OS's via boot.ini ??

[Chris Wilson]

I have Win2000 on a pair of SATA drives in Raid 0 format, and Ubuntu Linux on an IDE drive on the cables from the IDE ports on the m/. board. I can boot Windows by setting the m/bopard bios to boot scsi first. I can boot Linux by setting the m/board bios to boot HD0. I would like a more elegant way of doing this. Can I custom write a Windows boot.ini file to "see" the Linux intallation and boot it as a menu option? Currently my boot.ini looks like this, how would you add in Linux? Thanks. If that wouldn't work what SIMPLE options are available please?

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

 

[feriso]

i think you can quite easily add the linux drive to your boot.ini. You will need to look at disk management to find the exact numbers to use for your linux os .

Also goole boot linux on boot.ini

and the first few are helpful.