> -----Original Message----- > From: Preston Crawford [mailto:me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 5:59 AM ----- Original Message ----- > From: Shawn Iverson > Sent: 1/27/2004 2:43:24 PM > > If by chance grub isn't happy with W2K (I know I had > trouble with RH9), you > > can use the W2K bootloader to book Linux by doing the following: > > > > If your linux boot partition is /dev/hda1: > > > > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=boot.lin bs=512 count=1 > > > > Copy the boot.lin onto the root of the W2K partition, using > a floppy or some > > other means. > > > > Edit your boot.ini and add the following under [boot loader]: > > > > c:\boot.lin="Fedora" > > > > I believe that there is a howto out there on the details of > how to do this. > > I've done this before. In this scenario you'd make Fedora the > slave, though, right? I mean, I'd take the drive that already > has Fedora and make it the slave to the Win2k drive. Would > this cause any problems with the Linux install? Nope.. No Problems for that at all. I just *nearly* hosed my OtherHalf's XP system last night with a FC1 install cause I put grub in the MBR. Lucky for me, I just had to do a fixmbr in the recovery console. Anyway, I now know how to use Grub to boot Win2K/XP and use Win2k/XP loader to boot grub and into FC1. Cool..
