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/board 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

 

[gumbald]

Windows won't boot Linux, but Linux will boot Windows

EDIT: Didn't read your post. You want to be installing grub in Ubuntu, I'm just looking for some linkage.

EDIT2: http://www.shahidhussain.com/wordpress/index.php?p=33

That any help?

 

[Beepcake]

Unless things have changed you can certainly boot Linux from the NT boot loader. There's some instructions here:

http://www.canerten.com/dual-boot-linux-and-windows-with-windows-boot-manager/