Adding Windows 2000 into a dual-boot after the fact?

[Preston Crawford]

----- Original Message -----
From: Shawn Iverson
Sent: 1/27/2004 2:43:24 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: Adding Windows 2000 into a dual-boot after the fact?

> 
> If by chance grub isn't happy with W2K (I know I had trouble with RH9), you
> can use the W2K bootloader to book Linux by doing the following:
> 
> If your linux boot partition is /dev/hda1:
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda1 of=boot.lin bs=512 count=1
> 
> Copy the boot.lin onto the root of the W2K partition, using a floppy or some
> other means.
> 
> Edit your boot.ini and add the following under [boot loader]:
> 
> c:\boot.lin="Fedora"
> 
> I believe that there is a howto out there on the details of how to do this.

I've done this before. In this scenario you'd make Fedora the slave, though, right? I mean, I'd take the drive that already has Fedora and make it the slave to the Win2k drive. Would this cause any problems with the Linux install?

Preston