That's grub4dos.sindi wrote: Is there some bootloader that can be installed from XP to boot puppy frugally? Full installation would require shrinking XP to make a linux partition - with frugal puppy?
I could put the hard in another computer to shrink NTFS and make fat32 and ext2 partitions. (I like booting with loadlin from fat32).
One howto would be the one at http://puppy.b0x.me/lin-n-win; another with more current download information is http://puppylinux.org/wikka/GRUBforDOS. (I suggest grub4dos-chenall, since that's the only active project.)
By the way: if you change the permissions of ntldr.ini, MAKE SURE YOU SET THEM BACK TO READONLY/SYSTEM. If I remember right, failing to do so can result in a failure to boot.