Dual booting BeOS and Windows XP

Forum thread started by robot on Sun, 2007-02-04 06:34

I have installed BeOS MAX on my laptop. It is on a primary partition. There is another primary partition on the drive with Windows XP on it.

I would like to alter my Windows XP boot.ini to allow a BeOS choice. OSX-Intel is able to boot this way, can't BeOS work as well?

I do not wish to boot from a CD/Floppy, as my laptop only has an external CD drive (no floppy). Also, I would prefer to use the Windows boot manager, as opposed to a third party boot manager.

Edit: I just installed the Be boot manager from within BeOS, and I am quite pleased with it :)

Now if only I could find a video driver for my Intel® 830M chipset :)

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Re: Dual booting BeOS and Windows XP

by starsseed - 2007-06-15 09:22

One Way should be possible

A few months ago, I heard about something like:

Boot with a linux live CD (Madriva one or ubuntu for instance)
use DD (the Disk Dump unix tool) to get the BeOsMax bootblock and save it as
C:\BeOsMax.img
add a line with this file in
boot.ini
NtLoader should be able to load it

You will find more help on linux forum.

(English)
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/ntldr.php

(French)
http://www.laboratoire-microsoft.org/articles/win/boot/