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[ILUG] Linux + Windows 2000

[ILUG] Linux + Windows 2000

Gary Coady gary at apollo.netsoc.tcd.ie
Tue Mar 21 16:27:17 GMT 2000


On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:24:10PM +0000, Paul Reilly wrote:
> Does anyone know what the equivalent of the NT boot.ini file is in 
> windows 2000? I've installed lilo in my root partition since w2k
> overwrites the MBR - but I still need a way of telling the w2k os loader
> that my linux parition is there! NT uses boot.ini, but w2k doesn't seem
> to use this.

boot.ini is still used in W2K, but you have to tell Explorer to show
essential system files, before you can see it. Besides that, it'll follow
the exact same procedure as with NT4.

Gary.

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