On Wed, 4 May 2005, Paul Howarth wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 18:35 -0500, hanfamily@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Mauriat wrote:
I bought a new compaq computer with win xp partitioned the drive installed fedora with grub to load. I had everything working then I booted windows it goes into pc recovery and overwrites the boot section so it only will boot windows. Is there a way to get this to work? If not is there a way to make a boot cd to access the linux partition.
Just an idea:
Try re-installing grub to your boot partition or root partition
(wherever you boot) and then use the NT boot loader in XP to load
linux. This way you are not re-writing the MBR.
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html
Mauriat
I checked these out but they seem to all require a floppy drive which is missing on my computer. Partition Magic also has boot magic has anyone had any luck using it to dual boot xp and fedora?
Using bootpart does not require a floppy disk. It is a way of setting up the Windows bootloader so that it can boot Linux. You will, however, need to install grub on the root or /boot partition of your Fedora installation. What does the partitioning of your disk look like? Can you boot from the rescue CD (or 1st Fedora install CD and enter "linux rescue" at the boot: prompt) and enter "fdisk -l" at the shell prompt?
Paul.
I always keep a copy of the partitioning when I install I wont bother with track info
/dev/hda size in mb
/dev/hda1 vfat 5382
/dev/hda2 ntfs 12925
/dev/hda3 extended
/dev/hda4 vfat 30004
/dev/hda5 vfat 20000
/dev/hda6 vfat 20000
/dev/hda7 swap 1004
/dev/hda8 ext3 6991
I actually reinstalled grub to / before I quit yesterday figuring it
would be part of the solution. Reading the howto bootpart refers to
is very old since it refers to lilo but it says you need to copy the
bootsector.lnx to a dos floppy and then to the windows ntfs partition.
I guess I am not understanding it right. The last dual boot I did was
a win98 and it was easy.
You can run bootpart natively in XP and have it write directly to the NTFS partition. No need for a floppy. Just get bootpart to create a boot entry for the /dev/hda8 partition (you can use "bootpart /?" to see which partition number bootpart assigns that partition), assuming you installed grub in that partition. Bootpart should be able to write the appropriate bootsect.lnx straight to C:\bootsect.lnx
Paul.
