Amithlon/Windows install questions

[bhoggett]

Blomberg wrote:
Hmm, since it's apparently a bit of a hassle to get Windows to boot the thing, can't I just use a boot-loader like Lilo or Grub - or whatever people use - to load Amithlon from the folder on my Win partition?

The approach with the virtual drive instead of my 5 gig BeOS partition and then the Amithlon thing in a folder on C: is the best option for me. I'd rather not have anything installed on my spare drive (the 20gig) since I use it to transfer stuff and the occasional backup as well.

That's the ideal way to set it up.  I've had it running like that for ages, with LILO as the boot manager, though GRUB will do the job just as well.

Loading Windows first is a bad idea.

[bhoggett]

Will Lilo or Grub do this, or does it have to be on separate partitions?

Both LILO and GRUB will do it. I have Linux installed, as well as Windows and Amithlon, so my boot files reside on the Linux "/boot" partition, but you can just as easily put them on the Windows C:\ drive.