Multibooting multiple Windows and Puppy versions

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Multibooting multiple Windows and Puppy versions

#1 Post by artsown »

I had posted in the Beginners section about a web page I put up on the
subject of multi-booting. Since the page is actually a "how to" I thought
I'd post the url here too as well. The page has been updated with Notes and
a section on booting USB drive on old machines lacking provision for this.
Here's the url: http://home.ptd.net/~artnpeg/

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#2 Post by darkcity »

great stuff

added link to wiki
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/InstallationIndex

does this work for Vista and Win 7 too?

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#3 Post by artsown »

Thanks darkcity. I have nothing newer than Win XP here to test on.

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#4 Post by rcrsn51 »

darkcity wrote:does this work for Vista and Win 7 too?
No. Those Windows versions use a different boot mechanism.

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#5 Post by darkcity »

Thanks for the replies, I've updated the wiki link to reflect the Windows version

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#6 Post by 8-bit »

In my case, I have EasyBCD installed on Windows Vista (I assume Windows 7 would be similar).
I then have Puppy frugal installs with grub on a second hard drive and on booting, I get a selection from the first boot menu of Windows or Linux.
Then if I select Linux, grub with menu boots from the second hard drive and I select a frugal install of Puppy from the grub menu.
I have never been brave enough to try grub-for-dos as I would not want to have to reinstall windows to recover if the mbr of the first drive failed to boot windows.
And EasyBCD is well documented as to how to install a second or more OS without loosing access to booting windows.

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8-bit wrote:In my case, I have EasyBCD installed on Windows Vista (I assume Windows 7 would be similar).
I then have Puppy frugal installs with grub on a second hard drive and on booting, I get a selection from the first boot menu of Windows or Linux.
Then if I select Linux, grub with menu boots from the second hard drive and I select a frugal install of Puppy from the grub menu.
I have never been brave enough to try grub-for-dos as I would not want to have to reinstall windows to recover if the mbr of the first drive failed to boot windows.
And EasyBCD is well documented as to how to install a second or more OS without loosing access to booting windows.
On my Ms Vista machine I have it that way too
using Neogrub.

But on my two Win7 Netbooks I most likely made use of
Shinobar's latest version of Grub4dos ??? or is that my poor memory?

How else do them boot. I remember him to encourage me to follow
his instructions and it failed first and he had to give me an code
that made it to work. Here is what my menu.lst says

# menu.lst produced by grb4dosconf
color blue/cyan yellow/blue white/black cyan/black
timeout 10
default 0

# Frugal installed Puppy



title lupu-528-005-FF12
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /lupu-528-005-FF12/initrd.gz
kernel /lupu-528-005-FF12/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=sda2 psubdir=lupu-528-005-FF12 pfix=fsck
initrd /lupu-528-005-FF12/initrd.gz

and the windows 7 entry back to how that works

# Windows


title Windows Vista (loader)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#savedefault
chainloader +1


I trust I must have tested it once to see if that worked
but when I boot I chose between Win and Linux
and then when linux comes up I have all the frugal installs there.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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