On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:47 -0400, Jim Li wrote: > hi, > i am having problems trying to get a dual drive bootup to work. i > check out the following link for help: > http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials/1/tutorial-3573.html > and basically follow its instruction. my original config. is a dell > machine (optiplex pentium III) with windows2000 on the primary ide > drive (hda1). i want to add another (secondary) hard drive (hdb) to > the machine. so i took my fedora 3 installation disks and tried > installing them. i created three partitions + a swap ( /, /boot, > /home, swap). i use the option of putting the mbr not to the primary > hard drive partition, hda1, which is my windows mbr, but a partition > on the secondary hard drive (hdb1 or /boot). after installing, i > reinsert disk1 to the cdrom to do a linux rescue, since the bootloader > at this point still only boots up window2000 only. after mounting > /mnt/sysimage which is hdb5 (the root dir, /), i mount /hda1 to > /mnt/sysimage/mnt/windows (a directory i created to mount the C:/ > drive of windows). i did the following command: dd if=/dev/hdb1 > (/boot) of=/mnt/sysimage/mnt/windows/linux.bin bs=512 count=1, (which > i believe is the mbr bootup image of fedora)... and basically move > this binary file to hda1 (or C: drive), mv linux.bin > /mnt/sysimage/mnt/windows. so after that i did an "exit" to reboot the > system. after rebooting, i got into windows and modified the boot.ini > file by adding one line at the end: c:\linux.bin="My Linux Partition". > so i reboot the machine again.. and at the bootloader menu, i select > the linux partition option. it brought up only one word "Grub"... and > the system stops and never continues. my question is: is it possible > that i did something wrong when i use fedora option to copy the mbr > image to /dev/hdb1 (/boot)? i really don't want to have lilo be my > dual bootloader 'cos that means i need to backup my windows stuff and > reinstall windows as a secondary and not primary drive. You might find bootpart (http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) an easier way of doing this. It runs under Windows and will (a) write out an appropriate boot sector file, and (b) edit your boot.ini accordingly. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
