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DUAL BOOT redhat linux 7.3 - W2K
Post 21150 by LivinFree on Sunday 12th of May 2002 07:56:35 AM
05-12-2002
Check out linuxdocs for tons of info on installing dual boot with lilo, grub, or native windows bootloader...
Here's one that may be useful:
http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/mini/Linux+WinNT.html
I know that there are others too, such as using the different bootloaders, and other setup stuff.
The only thing I recommend, is do not mount your windows drives read-write when you are booted into Linux. This isn't something you have to worry about by default, but if you go out of your way to access your win2k partitions writable from Linux, the filesystem will get broken. Unless you fix it a certain way after each time you write to an NTFS partition, you will be unable to boot 2k.
But you shouldn't really have too much to worry about - it's hard to break the fs (you have to recompile the kernel just to allow yourself write access). The other thing to be careful about is repartitioning. You can accidentally (very possibly, unless you have the right tools - read the howto for info) wipe out your partition table, rendering the data you already have on your drive unreadable. Take a backup if possible.
I've done dual-boot before with no problems whatsoever, though... you just have to make sure you know what you're doing
Here's one that may be useful:
http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/mini/Linux+WinNT.html
I know that there are others too, such as using the different bootloaders, and other setup stuff.
The only thing I recommend, is do not mount your windows drives read-write when you are booted into Linux. This isn't something you have to worry about by default, but if you go out of your way to access your win2k partitions writable from Linux, the filesystem will get broken. Unless you fix it a certain way after each time you write to an NTFS partition, you will be unable to boot 2k.
But you shouldn't really have too much to worry about - it's hard to break the fs (you have to recompile the kernel just to allow yourself write access). The other thing to be careful about is repartitioning. You can accidentally (very possibly, unless you have the right tools - read the howto for info) wipe out your partition table, rendering the data you already have on your drive unreadable. Take a backup if possible.
I've done dual-boot before with no problems whatsoever, though... you just have to make sure you know what you're doing
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bootctl
BOOTCTL(1) bootctl BOOTCTL(1) NAME
bootctl - Control the firmware and boot manager settings SYNOPSIS
bootctl [OPTIONS...] status bootctl [OPTIONS...] list bootctl [OPTIONS...] update bootctl [OPTIONS...] install bootctl [OPTIONS...] remove DESCRIPTION
bootctl checks, updates, installs or removes the boot loader from the current system. bootctl status checks and prints the currently installed versions of the boot loader binaries and all current EFI boot variables. bootctl list displays all configured boot loader entries. bootctl update updates all installed versions of systemd-boot, if the current version is newer than the version installed in the EFI system partition. This also includes the EFI default/fallback loader at /EFI/BOOT/BOOT*.EFI. A systemd-boot entry in the EFI boot variables is created if there is no current entry. The created entry will be added to the end of the boot order list. bootctl install installs systemd-boot into the EFI system partition. A copy of systemd-boot will be stored as the EFI default/fallback loader at /EFI/BOOT/BOOT*.EFI. A systemd-boot entry in the EFI boot variables is created and added to the top of the boot order list. bootctl remove removes all installed versions of systemd-boot from the EFI system partition, and removes systemd-boot from the EFI boot variables. If no command is passed, status is implied. OPTIONS
The following options are understood: -h, --help Print a short help text and exit. --version Print a short version string and exit. --path= Path to the EFI System Partition (ESP). If not specified, /efi, /boot, and /boot/efi are checked in turn. It is recommended to mount the ESP to /boot, if possible. -p, --print-path This option modifies the behaviour of status. Just print the path to the EFI System Partition (ESP) to standard output and exit. --no-variables Do not touch the EFI boot variables. EXIT STATUS
On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise. SEE ALSO
Boot loader specification[1] systemd boot loader interface[2] NOTES
1. Boot loader specification https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec 2. systemd boot loader interface https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/BootLoaderInterface systemd 237 BOOTCTL(1)