DualBoot Kolibrios with windows NT/2K/XP

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There are two ways for doing this, using two different bootloaders. They work the same but are different to install.

These boot methods will not work on a partition formatted in FAT12 or FAT16!

Only FAT32 and NTFS are supported!

[edit] The Well-explained way

First and foremost. You need the following files:

  • mtdlr (is the kolibri loader just like ntdlr for winxp)
  • kolibri.img (the floppy image that you used to burn to a floppy, he he)

At the bottom, I'm going to give you the files' links

  • Copy those files to your first partition (commonly C: ) It doesn't matter if it is a NTFS partition, KolibriOS is capable to run from it.
  • Open the file "boot.ini" which is commonly located at root (c: ). However, you should change its properties to writeable as you can see in the following images:

mtldr_img00.jpg mtldr_img01.jpg

maybe you're a newbie at WinXP, so you must know that you must set your folder options to show "hidden files", and exclusively "system files"

  • You must add the following lines to your "boot.ini" file: 
c:\mtldr="KolibriOS"

maybe a picture could help:

mtldr_img02.jpg

  • save it and all is set, only left to reboot...
  • Notice that you can change the timeout to 3 seconds or less that way you won't wait a lot until your default operating system runs while you're not in the mood to select manually HeHEHE....

PS: This tut, is intended for newbies, so if you're an average user don't take it as an offense to your knowledge. ThankU.

Almost forgot!!! phew!!! The files I was talking at the beggining: you can get them from here: 

mtldr: http://vhanla.up.md/downloads/mtldr or ftp://kolibrios.org/pub/bootloaders/mtldr
kolibri.img: you can get this file from the latest distro on http://kolibrios.org/?p=Download (it's inside the binary package)

This tuturial was originally written by Vhanla, and converted for the wiki by Hidnplayr

[edit] the other way

You need only the two files in this zip: 

HDD_Boot.zip.
  • Create a folder C:\kolibri , Copy the Kolibrios Files into that folder.
  • Extract the zipfile into the same directory and run setboot.exe, follow the instructions.
  • Open the file C:\boot.ini and add the parameter C:\kolibri\boot.bin="KolibriOS_HDD".
  • Restart your computer and select "KolibriOS_HDD" in the boot menu.
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