Re: Booting Windows with a boot manager


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If you intend to investigate XOSL then I recommend that
you play with it on a spare disk until you're comfortable with
it.

A virtual server would be ideal to test boot loaders and "play" with
it


Interesting thought. Assuming that the OP does have a machine
with Virtual Server loaded, I'm not sure how well this environment
could duplicate the real world of boot loaders, e.g.
- Booting the virtual machine from a real floppy disk.
- Manipulating the MBR of the virtual disk.
- Partitioning the virtual disk.
- Distinguishing between primary and logical partitions.

Unfortunately, I don't have VMware or such installed on my machine - as
that
is what I think you mean. Should be interested but to my expectations it
may
not be a real simulation indeed.
I will have to play around with the machine's hard disk.

Fokke



You could get an old 4 or 20 GByte hard disk from your
friendly computer dealer. They are so small by today's standards
that they should cost you next to nothing. I have several lying
about . . .

Well, XOSL has an uninstall option and the option to use the original MBR.
So I installed it straight away. Unfortunately it did not work and so
didn't the "use the original MBR" option. Uninstalling the bootmanager
left me with an unusable MBR. I try to reinstall grub now ...

Rgs,
Fokke

That's why testing it with a spare disk is the preferred option.

You can restore a Windows MBR by booting the machine with
a Win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com), then running the
command fdisk /mbr.


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