Boot from memory-stick?

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jul 25 22:13:57 UTC 2005


Fritz Whittington wrote:
> On or about 2005-07-25 03:45, Paul Howarth whipped out a trusty #2 
> pencil and scribbled:
> 
>> Monkey Pet wrote:

[that he wants a multi-boot system]

> An even better solution requires no extra floppies, CD's or even a USB 
> memory stick.  Just install GRUB on the BR of the boot *partition* (not 
> in the MBR), copy the usual boot loader code from the partition, install 
> it on the C: drive as a file, and add the option to your C:\boot.ini 
> file.  Easy instructions are at:
> http://board.iexbeta.com/lofiversion/index.php/t47038.html
> 
> I use this myself under Windows 2000 to boot Linux, and it works great.
> 

That is the way I boot from XP. But you do presume. This will
not work with Windows 95 or Windows 98, for example. It will
work with Windows NT.

Mike

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