Hi,
Well that took some doing. I originally wanted to have both Ubuntu and Slackware 12 but I couldn't work that one out. So I ended up with 2x Slackware (one for tinkering, one for working). EasyBCD made it easy to dualboot XP and Vista but here's what I had to do.
I started out with installing XP, Vista and Kubuntu on my new SATA drive. Got triple boot to work in one go (compliments to EasyBCD). I then wanted to add an existing Slackware on my old IDE/PATA drive.This I couldn't get to work. Tried everything, messed up the Grub for Kubuntu, started again. Stopped for a few days.
Then I removed Kubuntu, added another Slackware to the same IDE drive, installed them both with EasyBCD, looked in the c:\nst directory for the corresponding .mbr files and replaced them with ones I made using:
dd if=/dev/hdc1 of=slackwork.bin bs=512 count=1
dd if=/dev/hdc3 of=slackplay.bin bs=512 count=1
that worked.
Wish: being able to give your own filename to the nst_lilo.mbr files. The first one is obvious the second one generated is rather long.
If there's anything the developers need to improve the detection of Lilo boot records, let me know.
Bart
Well that took some doing. I originally wanted to have both Ubuntu and Slackware 12 but I couldn't work that one out. So I ended up with 2x Slackware (one for tinkering, one for working). EasyBCD made it easy to dualboot XP and Vista but here's what I had to do.
I started out with installing XP, Vista and Kubuntu on my new SATA drive. Got triple boot to work in one go (compliments to EasyBCD). I then wanted to add an existing Slackware on my old IDE/PATA drive.This I couldn't get to work. Tried everything, messed up the Grub for Kubuntu, started again. Stopped for a few days.
Then I removed Kubuntu, added another Slackware to the same IDE drive, installed them both with EasyBCD, looked in the c:\nst directory for the corresponding .mbr files and replaced them with ones I made using:
dd if=/dev/hdc1 of=slackwork.bin bs=512 count=1
dd if=/dev/hdc3 of=slackplay.bin bs=512 count=1
that worked.
Wish: being able to give your own filename to the nst_lilo.mbr files. The first one is obvious the second one generated is rather long.
If there's anything the developers need to improve the detection of Lilo boot records, let me know.
Bart