OK, so i had an existing xp home partition that filled my 76.6 gb drive. i reduced it by 10 gb. made a 2 gb swap ( i have 1 gb ram) and a ~8 gb ext3 partition.

i installed knoppix on it, and it went fine. problem is, i am on a laptop and do not have a floppy drive. i cant make a boot disk, or at least dont want to unless i have to emulate a floppy on a cd.

When asked to put LILO in the MBR, i clicked no. i like ntldr fine. I used these instructions to dual boot.

An alternative method :

1. go to here http://www.skyjammer.com/files/knoppix

2. get the w32grub.zip and unzip it to c:\, it is already a directory tree

3. run c:\boot\grub\w32grub

4. add 'c:\boot\stage1="GRUB"' to c:\boot.ini

Now there is a GRUB boot loader in your W2K/XP system.

Install your KNOPPIX as usual but don't let it touch your boot loader.

in c:\boot\grub\menu.lst add the following(just an example)

title KNOPPIX
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz
initrd /boot/initrd

and you can boot load your KNOPPIX. For detail about GRUB, read the manual on their main site.

If you want poorman's install(FAT only), follow the instruction in the doc on this site on how to extract the big file as well as the boot.img from the ISO and follow the followin procedure

1. get memdisk from syslinux site and put in c:\boot
2. put the boot.img(from the ISO) to c:\boot
2. add the following to c:\boot\grub\menu.lst
courtesy of garyng


now, i can get into windows perfectly. when i boot i get two titles. XP HOME and GRUB.


When i click grub, i see for a second starting stage 2... and the computer reboots to the bios. here is my menu.lst for grub:


# Sample boot menu configuration file
#

# Boot automatically after a minute.
timeout 60

# By default, boot the second entry.
default 1

# Fallback to the first entry.
fallback 0

title Windows XP
unhide (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

# For booting Linux
title KNOPPIX
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz
initrd /boot/initrd

i know grub starts counting at 0, so my windows partition is the first, and my linux is the third so i believe the partitions are correct.

here is my boot.ini:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
c:\boot\stage1="GRUB"


does anyone know why i get the error i do? does anyone know how to fix it? if not, can someone explain how to remove grub and keep ntldr if possible? without a floppy in all of this please, unless its necessary.


Thanks.

Hukdonfonix