>I would like to use w2k because of the large partition I created when I first installed w2k on my laptop. I have installed linux on the remainding free disk space and it appears to install correctly. But I can't boot from the HD but must use a floppy to boot the linux partition.
Like I said earlier, the /boot partition (for Linux) needs to be within the first 1024 sectors. You might have to repartition or move your partition.
>I searched google and linux.org but I don't see anything that relates to booting Linux from w2k's loader.
WHAT?
http://www.google.com/search?q=booting+linux+with+windows+2000The very first result tells you how to do it.
>I'm using Red Hat 6.5 if that helps anything.
Red Hat 6.5 does not exist. There is Red Hat 7.1 (beta), 7.0, 6.2, 6.1, 6.0, 5.2, 5.1, 5.0 (and lower).
>I really don't want to change the setup in the w2k partition because it's almost prefect (for me) and it's greater than 1024 sectors.
Just shrink it then. Move your data to a different partition. This is the price you pay for dual booting MS and Linux.
>I'd be willing to use the floppy to boot - but I can't figure out how to get the correct kernel to boot. In other words the boot kernel doesn't contain any changes I make to the kernel (i.e. sound card, NIC) using linuxconf.
I'm assuming you are using the disk that was created during install. Boot disks point to a specific kernel. So if you want to update your boot disk, type (as root):
mkbootdisk
or
man mkbootdisk
for more information.
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