Linux Installation Question

[Janina Sajka]

Th3e lilo boot loader is a very accessible boot loader. With a little tweaking, grub is fairly accessible as well.

Why should one play guessing games with the inaccessible Windows boot loader if the Linux ones do a better job of it?


Glenn Ervin at Home writes:
> Isn't it possible, if there are 2 separate hard drives on a system, to use
> F8 or whatever key that computer uses to select a drive to boot to, and
> first select the CD-Rom, for the install, and let Fedora partition the
> preferred drive, and from that point forward, use the same F-Key to select
> which operating system will be run?
> Glenn
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> Subject: Re: Linux Installation Question
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> Hi Leslie,
>   The Disk Druid utility is run as part of the installation process. I'm not
> sure how your BIOS will know that there are two operating systems on your
> computer if they are on separate drives, but on my laptop a boot loader
> called Grub was automatically installed. While it doesn't speak, I know that
> when my machine boots up I'm given two options: boot into Fedora Core or
> Windows. So if I want to go into Windows, I just hit the down-arrow and
> enter, and Windows boots as usual. However, I don't even know if Fedora
> comes with any BRLTTY built into the kernel, so this may or may not help.
> 
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> On 4/20/2004 at 2:19 PM Leslie Fairall wrote:
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> >Actually, the drive will be blank. If I am understanding you correctly,
> >Fedora core 1 has a utility that I will need to run once I install it? How
> >will I boot my computer from one operating system to the other? Thanks for
> >your advice.
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