Multiboot -Windows/Lindows/Mandrake

[Raid762]

Hi , I finally got the dreaded Lindows downloaded , ok so far so good untill i installed it
Well it decided to NUKE my Mandrake loader , so I tried to reinstall LILO from the manrdrake repair disk , well that went ok , BUT I lost LINDOWS again , so I have tried to take the settings from LINDOWS lilo.conf and manually add them to Mandrakes boot loader , no luck , also tried it vice versa , still no luck ,
my config is as follows
80gig primary
hda1 fat32(win9X), hda5 fat32, hda6 ext2(mandrake), hda7 (swapp), hda8 ntfs(XP), hda9 ntfs, hda10 ntfs, hda11 ntfs.
40 gig secondary
hdb1 fat32(35gig), hdb5 reiser(LINDOWS 4gig)
so is it possible and how , any Ideas will be appreciated.
Thanks.

[oscar2043]

Booting from xp boot menu (xp c: and fat32)

Goto into a Mandrake terminal an type
dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/windows/boot.mdk bs=512 count=1
(to create c:\ boot.mdk)

In lindows
dd if=/dev/hda of=/C:/boot.lin bs=512 count=1
(to create c:\ boot.lin)

Edit c:\boot.bin an add 2 lines

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="C:\ Win98 DOS"
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons
C:\boot.mdk="Mandrake 9.0 "
C:\boot.lin="Lindows 2.0 "



The loadlin way (I have loadin.exe in c:\loadlin and lindows in c:\Lindows)
First boot in real dos and type (or make a bat file)

c:\loadlin\loadlin.exe c:\Lindows\boot\vmlinu~1.19 rw root=/dev/hda1 initrd=c:\Lindows\boot\initrd~1.gz console=null acpi=off

For mandrake (I have mandrake in 2nd partition D: )

c:\loadlin\loadlin c:\loadlin\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ro initrd=c:\loadlin\initrd.img quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi

Copy vmlinuz? and initrd?..img from mandrake linux /boot folder and rename to vmlinuz (no more than 8 characters plus 3 charac. ext )


Another way with config.sys menu (while booting into real DOS)

[Menu]

menuitem=DOS, Dos 8.0
menuitem=lindows, Lindows 2.0
menuitem=mdke, Mandrake 9
menudefault=DOS, 10

[mdke]
shell=c:\loadlin\loadlin.exe c:\loadlin\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ro initrd=c:\loadlin\initrd.img quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi

[lindows]
shell=c:\loadlin\loadlin.exe c:\Lindows\boot\vmlinu~1.19 root=/dev/hda1 rw initrd=c:\Lindows\boot\initrd~1.gz console=null acpi=off

[DOS]
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[fritz122]

Here hav I found a verry simple tool (is in german AND englisch) and is for privat = Freeware.

Here is it

You can see the screenshot und can download from this same site. Is in english and german langual.