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alpyre · 11 August 2009, 11:55

Amithlon without the boot partition... cool...

If you have Windows XP Installed and aim to dual boot with Amithlon, without an extra boot partition, there is an alternative way to achieve it. With one exception : your Windows partition (C: probably) must be FAT32 formatted.

The boot folder is in a drawer called "Booters" on our latest Amithlon stuff (you should PM Charlie for the real thing). Mistakenly written "AmithlonBoot(WinNTFS)" which shoud be Win(Fat32) and vice versa... sorry for that.

So from Windows:
Copy that boot folder into the root of your C: (where "Documents and Settings", "Program Files" and "WINDOWS" folders are) and run bootinst.bat once (it is inside the boot folder). Then there you have it. It looks just like this:

The Backdrop image is the Amithlon.png file which could be edited or changed with another one. And to edit the options of the boot menu, you should open the Amithlon.cfg in an a text editor (it does what Menu.lst does in grub).

Thanks to Özay Turay for this great boot menu.

C ya all... Have fun!

11 August 2009, 11:55	#212
alpyre Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Samsun / Turkey Posts: 66	Amithlon without the boot partition... cool... If you have Windows XP Installed and aim to dual boot with Amithlon, without an extra boot partition, there is an alternative way to achieve it. With one exception : your Windows partition (C: probably) must be FAT32 formatted. The boot folder is in a drawer called "Booters" on our latest Amithlon stuff (you should PM Charlie for the real thing). Mistakenly written "AmithlonBoot(WinNTFS)" which shoud be Win(Fat32) and vice versa... sorry for that. So from Windows: Copy that boot folder into the root of your C: (where "Documents and Settings", "Program Files" and "WINDOWS" folders are) and run bootinst.bat once (it is inside the boot folder). Then there you have it. It looks just like this: The Backdrop image is the Amithlon.png file which could be edited or changed with another one. And to edit the options of the boot menu, you should open the Amithlon.cfg in an a text editor (it does what Menu.lst does in grub). Thanks to Özay Turay for this great boot menu. C ya all... Have fun!