Dual Boot Kolibrios with Windows NT/2K/XP

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

The First 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

1st: 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.

2nd: 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:

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"

3rd: You must add the following lines to your "boot.ini" file: c:mtldr="KolibriOS" maybe a picture could help:

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

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.