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floppy:
Hello.
I was checking linux installation on a lenovo netbook with a colleague today.
Slitaz, PartedMagic, knoppix, puppyLinux and ..TCL Booted.
We started Gparted and modified the HDD partitioning.
So, we made 2 new ext4 partitions at the "end" of the previous sda1 = NTFS partition after reducing it (1st for boot with TCL = sda2; 2nd for TCE/Home =sda4.. the sda3 is a FAT partition which we did not understand why it was there).

Should I install the Grub4Dos on the ntfs partition
or install extlinux on the linux  boot partition with TC-install?
What is the recommendation?
how should look the menu.lst (or extlinux.cfg) for booting both XP and TCL? (with the drive names given above).
It would be great if somebody could post its menu.lst or extlinux.cfg for dual booting xp (sda1) and tcl (sda2).

gerald_clark:
The wiki is full of useful information.
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:install_with_windows

Rich:
Hi floppy

--- Quote ---the sda3 is a FAT partition which we did not understand why it was there).
--- End quote ---
It's not uncommon for manufacturers to set up a small partition containing utilities and possibly
drivers for a particular machine.

tikbalang:
if you need to have XP, it would be better to chainload Grub4DOS by adding this line [c:\grldr="Grub4DOS"] to boot.ini, (see last line):

boot.ini
[/code]

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
c:\grldr="Grub4DOS"

[/code]

then copy GRLDR and MENU.LST to where boot.ini exists, usually c:\.

menu.lst

--- Code: ---
title TinyCore
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /tce/boot/tinycore.gz
kernel /tce/boot/bzimage
initrd /tce/boot/tinycore.gz


--- End code ---

make sure you use the correct paths and parameters for your own menu.lst.

floppy:

--- Quote from: tikbalang on August 23, 2011, 10:44:48 PM ---if you need to have XP, it would be better to chainload Grub4DOS by adding this line [c:\grldr="Grub4DOS"] to boot.ini, (see last line):

boot.ini
[/code]

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
c:\grldr="Grub4DOS"

[/code]

then copy GRLDR and MENU.LST to where boot.ini exists, usually c:\.

menu.lst

--- Code: ---
title TinyCore
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /tce/boot/tinycore.gz
kernel /tce/boot/bzimage
initrd /tce/boot/tinycore.gz


--- End code ---

make sure you use the correct paths and parameters for your own menu.lst.

--- End quote ---
we have done it according this advice (from the windows XP; no USB boot was possible with TCL because we had no bootable USB adapter for my CF and no CD reader was available for booting TCL).
The menu XP/Grub4Dos appear. Good.
We have created following menu.lst

timeout 60
default 0
#
    title TinyCoreLinux
    root (hd0,3)
    kernel /tcl/bzImage vga=788 mydata=mydata noacpi showapps tce=hda2 kmap=qwertz/de-latin1 printk.time=1 
    initrd /tcl/tinycore.gz
#
    title knoppix
    root (hd0,3)
    kernel /knoppix/linux ramdisk_size=100000 lang=en nowheelmouse dma noswap noeject xmodule=mga desktop=fluxbox vt.default_utf8=0 apm=power-off vga=0x311 nomce quiet loglevel=0 tz=Europe/Berlin
     initrd /knoppix/minirt.gz
#
    title slitaz 3.0
    root (hd0,3)
    kernel /slitaz/bzImage rw root=/dev/null quiet kmap=de-latin1 vga=791 sound=no modprobe=mga lang=en acpi=off tz=localtime
    initrd /slitaz/rootfs.gz
#
    title PartedMagic kbd_US
    root (hd0,3)
    kernel /partedmagic/bzImage directory=partedmagic edd=off load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw loglevel=9 max_loop=256
    initrd /partedmagic/initramfs

boot

.. but whenwe choose the grub4dos in the menu xp/windows, no further menu appear; no prompt 60 works; only the grub prompt appear.
Any idea what happens there? Is perhaps this menu.lst structure not correct for a chainloaded grub4dos?
Perhaps a multiboot is not possible with the chainloaded grub4dos?

Next time, we will use a bootable USB and boot TCL for installing TCL with the grub4dos install if we dont make progress with a chainloaded grub4dos.

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