View source for 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.

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

'''Only FAT32 and NTFS are supported!'''

== Windows 7 ==

The process on Windows 7 is different compared to Windows XP/2k/NT etc .
Since there is no boot.ini available on Windows 7, you must create a boot entry using another tool, called EasyBCD.

Here are the steps : <br />

1) Install EasyBCD from http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/ . The non-commercial license is free for use.<br />
2) Open EasyBCD.<br />
3) Click "Add New Entry".<br />
4) Under "Portable/External Media" section :<br />
5) Enter what you want as the name. I chose "KolibriOS".<br />
6) In the path field, enter the path where you have kolibri.img ("C:\kolibri.img" in my case).<br />
7) Click "Add Entry" in the same "Portable/External Media" section.<br />

Done.<br />

Reboot into KolibriOS and have fun.<br />

[[Image:easybcd_kos.png|easybcd_kos.png]]

== Windows NT/2k/XP ==
=== The Well-explained way===


First and foremost. You need the following files:
*mtldr: http://ftp.kolibrios.org/pub/bootloaders/mtldr (it is the kolibri loader just like ntdlr for winxp)
*kolibri.img: you can get this file from the latest distro on http://kolibrios.org/en/download (it's inside the binary package)



*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:

[[Image:mtldr_img00.jpg|mtldr_img00.jpg]]
[[Image:mtldr_img01.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:

[[Image:mtldr_img02.jpg|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..

This tutorial was originally written by Vhanla.

=== the other way ===

You need only the two files in this zip: 
 [http://ftp.kolibrios.org/pub/bootloaders/HDD_Boot.7z HDD_Boot.zip]. 

*Create a folder C:\kolibri , Copy the Kolibrios Files (kernel.mnt and kolibri.img) 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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