Hello, I have recently seen a desktop PC which on start-up displays a menu where you can choose to run one of the OS install on your PC. For example this one had a menu showing Windows XP and Linux, if you clicked on Windows XP it would load the Windows XP OS that was installed on your PC, and the same when you clicked Linux.
I want to know if anyone could provide links to any tutorials or help on how to set up such a thing. As far as I know, you install one OS on a HD, and the other OS on a second HD, then set-up a menu where you select the OS and it boots from the certain HD.
It automaticly does that with most OS's, as long as it supports Windows bootloader it should be fine
If you want to dual boot between Linux and Windows install Windows first and then Linux. Depending on what distro and bootloader you use it should set that up automatically for you.
You probably saw GRUB (The GRand Unified Bootloader), this provides exactly what you are asking for.
You will want to install Windows first and then Linux. Probably Ubuntu since it will do most stuff for you. Installing Windows after installing Linux will likely break the bootloader and only allow you to boot into Windows.
After you have installed GRUB you can edit the settings in /boot/grub/grub.conf for things such as timeout before booting the default selection and what the default selection is.
[QUOTE=Eggbloke;34950966]You probably saw GRUB (The GRand Unified Bootloader), this provides exactly what you are asking for.
You will want to install Windows first and then Linux. Probably Ubuntu since it will do most stuff for you. Installing Windows after installing Linux will likely break the bootloader and only allow you to boot into Windows.
After you have installed GRUB you can edit the settings in /boot/grub/grub.conf for things such as timeout before booting the default selection and what the default selection is.[/QUOTE]
You don't edit grub.conf, you edit the files in /etc/grub.d/ and /etc/defaults/grub.
If you want a sexy visual version of GRUB -- Download BURG.
[QUOTE=Lerlth;35001218]If you want a sexy visual version of GRUB -- Download BURG.[/QUOTE]
Does it really matter how sexy it looks? You're on the screen for one second to pick the OS
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;35001281]Does it really matter how sexy it looks? You're on the screen for one second to pick the OS[/QUOTE]
You still look at it right? I'd be probably bummed if they had goatse spread his asshole off on the GRUB splash even if I only had to look at it for a second.
[QUOTE=gparent;35005608]You still look at it right? I'd be probably bummed if they had goatse spread his asshole off on the GRUB splash even if I only had to look at it for a second.[/QUOTE]
But its purple, and purple is a sexy color.
Just use virtualbox 10bucks says you get bored with unix after the first day or two
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