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02-12-2006, 06:00 PM
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Sound Engineer Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 1,557
|  Dual boot program?
Anyone know of a good dual-boot program? I'm setting up my system to boot XP and linux. I found a few free ones that I'm gonna try, but i wanted to see if anyone else knew of any freebies.
I would like it so that the options dont come up every time you boot... like for instance, you have to push a certain key for the list of bootable OS's to come up. | 
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02-12-2006, 06:13 PM
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Lord Techie Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 8,025
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If your using multiple hard drives, most newer motherboards have a hard drive boot selection key. Press it while booting to see a list of bootable devices.
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02-12-2006, 06:25 PM
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Sound Engineer Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 1,557
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I dont think mine has that. Of course you can select what boots first in the BIOS, but i dont think mine has a key like that.
My mobo is in sig. Its brand new.
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02-12-2006, 06:26 PM
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Master Techie Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bristol Posts: 2,134
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use partition magic or the windows one to create a new partition, then install linux onto it, and then install GRUB or LILO onto the mbr.
sorted.
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02-12-2006, 07:38 PM
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Sound Engineer Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 1,557
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GRUB is fine, but i'm not the only person who uses this computer. The rest of the people are linux illiterate and will freak out when it boots to linux. Is there a way to set GRUB to boot to windows by default? It waits for a certain amount of time and automatically boots to linux if you dont select anything. Can i change that somehow?
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02-12-2006, 08:18 PM
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Partition Magic Boot Magic Program
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02-12-2006, 08:44 PM
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Master Techie Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 2,534
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yes you can set grub to boot windows first by default
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02-12-2006, 09:23 PM
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Sound Engineer Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 1,557
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how?
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02-12-2006, 09:27 PM
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Super Techie Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 398
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Bootmanager BootStar.
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02-12-2006, 09:36 PM
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Master Techie Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 2,534
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edit the grub config file after you set up the system | |
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