EasyBCD can hook into an existing GRUB installation without any user intervention - just point it and it'll do the rest. If you're GRUB isn't already properly configured though, take a look at this sample configuration file for just about everything you could need. Nope. EasyBCD is a very special and unique application in that it doesn't even touch your bootsector or MBR, yet it's still the most powerful bootloader on the planet! Vista installs the "BCD Bootloader" to your MBR and Bootsector.

DISCLAIMER: Messing around with boot loader issues can make your harddisks unbootable. Please make backups before doing so. Please install a new boot loader only when you really now what you do. We reject any responsibility for damages that may occur on your system. GRUB - the GRand Unified Bootloader - needs to access some files in order to run. Its best you place them on a small - 50MB is enough even for further extensions - FAT 16/32 partition.

This is a known problem. Windows refuses to boot when it isn't installed on the first hard drive and shows a black/blank screen. To handle this, you will have to "fool" Windows into believing that it is installed on the first hard drive with a little tweak in your boot loader configuration. Please note that in the below example, Gentoo is installed on hda (first disk) and Windows on hdb (second one). Adjust your config as needed.

Yes, and this is only a bit more complicated. You'll need to read the bits on installing, later. Still, follow the steps above to make sure that Linux will work for you in the first place.

Sure, you can. Create a primary partiton BEFORE your Windows partition (e.g. with PartitionMagic) and get a boot manager (I use the german tool 'Bootmanager', you can get a free trial version at http://www.bootmanager-pro.de).

Booting into Linux is easy, all you need is a recent copy of Penguin (the booter) and a kernel. (Both of which can be found on this site under "Downloads".) Before you can boot into Linux, you will need to turn off Virtual Memory and you may need Mode32 (see the section on Mode32, later). Start up Penguin, select the kernel that you want to boot from in the configuration screen, and then use the boot option from the file menu. If it works, you'll get a message about rarp requests.

How to change the timeout seconds for GRUB menu on boot-up? To chage the timeout from 3 to 10 seconds: How to change default Operating System boot-up for GRUB menu? To chage the default OS from the first entry in GRUB menu to the 5th (note that counting starts from 0): How to permanently disable/enable boot-up services? Kubuntu inherits the Debian policy of disregarding non-executable scripts in initialization sequences, cron jobs, etc. (system triggered tasks).

You looked at the status web page and your machine was supported. But it just won't boot! Why not? Well, there are a few common problems that cause most of these failures. The most common one is that you're trying to use an ancient kernel that doesn't properly support your hardware. You should always be using the latest kernel, unless you have a really good reason not to. Other common problems are less obvious.

No. (Older dmsdos versions supported it, but this feature has been given up when the CVF-FAT interface was introduced. Well, the documentation always warned ... ) What can I say. You decided to use compressed partitions - now you are experiencing one of their greatest disadvantages. But dmsdos has some special tricks for you in this case. You can..

If you have FreeBSD and Linux on the same disk, just follow LILO's installation instructions for booting a non-Linux operating system. Very briefly, these are: Boot Linux, and add the following lines to /etc/lilo.conf: other=/dev/hda2 table=/dev/hda label=FreeBSD the above assumes that your FreeBSD slice is known to Linux as /dev/hda2; tailor to suit your setup). Then, run lilo as root and you should be done. If FreeBSD resides on another disk, you need to add loader=/boot/chain.

If LILO doesn't work, and if the machine has MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows, you may be left with a computer that won't boot. This can also happen on an upgrade to your Linux distribution. Re-installing LILO is the last thing that the installation does. It is vitally important when installing or upgrading Linux on a dual boot machine, to have a MS-DOS or Windows rescue disk nearby so you can FDISK -MBR. Then you can go about using LOADLIN.EXE instead of LILO.

You should be able to edit the .config file and then just type make at the top level. For example, to use Linux's graphical config editor: cd linux-2.6-xen0 # make xconfig (configure however you want) (on old version you need to specify ARCH=xen after make) # cd .. # make If there's already a .config present in the kernel tree we leave it well alone. If there's none present and a ./dist/install/boot/config-2.6-xen0 exists then we copy that to .config.

Documentation on using Jaz with Linux can be found at http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/Jaz-Drive-HOWTO.html.

JACK requires real-time scheduling privileges for reliable, dropout-free operation. The server requests these privileges when running with the -R option. Unmodified 2.6 kernels work much better, but still require special configuration. The simplest, and least-secure way to provide real-time privileges is running jackd as root. This has the disadvantage of also requiring all of JACK clients to run as root.

According to the grub disk numbering, /dev/hda is hd0, hdb is hd1, etc. The partitions are numbered from zero. Therefore, hda1 is hd0,0, hdc4 is hd2,3.

ADB) Because it doesn't need one. You can add that feature to the boot loader code, if you want to. The Linux kernel has no graphics primitives, just like any UNIX kernel.

The ADIOS development kit (adk) uses a Makefile which you copy from /mnt/cdrom/adk to /root or whatever directory you want to use. The adk software assumes you have already installed the ADIOS kernel on you linux system. This can be done using the hidden commands from the run options menu, read the notes on how to install ADIOS manually by resizing an existing NTFS partition from http://os.cqu.edu.au/adios/ntfsresizing.html OR You could download the ADIOS kernel source code from http://os.cqu.

Yes you can. But if your hard disk is small it won't give you what you expect. You'd better choose the best operating system and work only on it. Don't ask which operating system !

Yes, you can define two different run level for this (under SysVInit) in /etc/inittab. One run level includes the ISDN processes, where the other one does not.

Install LILO at the start of your Linux boot partition instead of in the Master Boot Record. You can then boot LILO from BootEasy. If you are running Windows® 95 and Linux this is recommended anyway, to make it simpler to get Linux booting again if you should need to reinstall Windows 95 (which is a Jealous Operating System, and will bear no other Operating Systems in the Master Boot Record).