“Why an article on Linux in an NT boot menu? We have HOWTOs,
don’t we? The HOWTOs give step by step instructions, but
unfortunately they don’t provide everything we want. They are
geared towards people who are new to Linux and are very good at
explaining things to newbies. But when it comes to doing something
out of the ordinary, we’re stuck. This article is a meant to fill
that void.”
“To start with one, day I got the crazy idea that it would be
nice to have a single boot loader to boot everything from one
manager instead of having both a LILO and an NT boot manager. So
which manager should I choose? I chose NT boot manager because when
we install LILO and boot NT from it, NT still presents its own boot
menu and it’s annoying enough to need to be asked two times to boot
the right operating system . So I thought of removing LILO and
using NT loader to present a nice menu for booting all the
operating systems I have. Okay then, How do we do it? I searched
through the HOWTOs. The mini HOWTO HOWTO NT OS Loader + Linux
mini-HOWTO gives a good overview of the process. But unfortunately
my brain couldn’t grasp the concept. As a result, when I first
followed the steps I got an unusable system. After 3 days of hard
work and rebooting and fiddling with an unusable system 3 times,
concepts began to become clear.”