> Message: 16 > Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:47:31 +0100 > From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: dual drive bootup problem > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <1116881251.4628.225.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain > > 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> > i went to bootpart site. according to what they have... it looks like they required the bootup loader to be lilo instead of grub. so, i went and copy the lilo executable from my other linux box and put it in /sbin.. and i manually edit /etc/lilo.conf + grab a copy of /boot/boot.b from my other machine. i went and change boot env variable to boot=/dev/hdb1... i then ran lilo.. with a warning from lilo that /dev/hdb1 is not the primary drive... which i simply ignore since i know it is not. i reboot the system and ran bootpart... i then have it grab the first 512 bytes of /dev/hdb1.. it then automatically changes the boot.ini pointing to the /<path>/linux.bin that was created on the previous step... reboot the machine again... and select the linux partition... i got an endless 0101010101010101.... to infinite... i am seriously thinking of reinstalling fedora3... now, my question is, is there a way to install lilo instead of grub with fedora 3. i can't find a way to go around it. appreciate your suggestion and solution, -jim
