[Westwales] Triple boot?

Jonathan West westwales at mailman.lug.org.uk
Thu Feb 20 18:13:00 2003


On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, John Richards wrote:

Hi John, and welcome

> ... The installations I have looked at always seem to want to place LILO
> in the boot sector, making my Windows dual boot a SECOND stage of the
> choice. I would prefer to avoid this, as my wife also uses the machine
> occasionally, and would find this off-putting. I have two large hard drives
> in the machine already partitioned into 4 large logical drives, so there is
> no problem there. The fourth is effectively spare - just used for quick Take
> Two backups at present.
> 
> I would welcome advice both on how I could do this and on the best
> implementation for this purpose.
> 
When you install a distro you will get an option which os to make the 
default so you can make windows the default and when you want to run linux 
just run the cursor down to linux in the initial boot screen and you are 
away
Cheers
jon