Okay, hda2 is (hd0,1) in grub language. Windows booted up, and it never looked so good. It's almost like linux people want to turn people away. Why not prompt where the damn windows folder is, instead "is windows on hda1, 'y.....' " That would have saved about 10 hours of searching through forums. The whole attraction of trying out linux for windows folks is being able to boot two op's, so the grub folks might include three extra lines of code to help new users NOT suddenly lose their windows OS. I guess, if all you use a computer for is to play games, that wouldn't matter much. Okay, I feel better now....Yeah, and like Windows is friendly to Linux. Like installing Windows will prompt me for all my Linux partitions. Do you go to the Windows forums and rant?
Quote (roberts @ April 23 2006,20:01)
Yeah, and like Windows is friendly to Linux. Like installing Windows will prompt me for all my Linux partitions. Do you go to the Windows forums and rant?
That's what I love; a great sense of humor.No sense of humor, a serous qestion.
Does windows even see your linux partions? Will windows write to your linux partions?
By the way, windows is the only ones that use letters for all the drives.
One last note, If you wanted easy street, just use a tried and proven distro of Linux, they'll install to your HD, pickup windows and install bootloader with all entries correct. No pain.
DSL is really a rather young distro, with the prime object of size, hince the name. If these good boys at DSL did everything we cried about it'd soon be a big bloated OS the same as all the rest.
As for Grub, it's really an OS of it's own, At the promt, you can enter into the grub shell, after which I think you would be kindly surprized at the power in the grub bootloader.
Also due to the nature of the loopbacks, DSL handles things differently than other Distros, normally grub is by far easier to configure that LILO.the answer to your questions are 1. yes & 2. yes remember linux can use a multitude of file systems, including fat and fat32. so if the compatibility is an issue for you, just format your partitions as fat.