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07/30/2001 Archived Entry: "Try this helpful workaround for a Linux/Win2K dual boot"

Try this helpful workaround for a Linux/Win2K dual boot

You thought ahead when installing Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional on your test machine, partitioning the hard drive so that you could put Linux on the same machine.

Then you took your copy of Red Hat Linux 7.1 and installed it on the partition you created. When you got to the point in the installation where Red Hat asks you where to put LILO (the Linux loader), you just clicked through, allowing it to be put on the default%u2014the master boot record (MBR) of the machine.

But when you rebooted the machine after the Linux install, you had no way to get to your Windows 2000 Professional. The nice graphic list showed up, but the only choice on it was Linux. Whoops!