On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:11 +0000, Vicki Walsh wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Hoping someone can help, I'm a bit of a Linux (well anything computer > related) newbie. > > Currently I have a computer set up with Win2000 Pro first then Fedora > second. I am using GRUB as the bootloader. > > I'd like to do the following: > > Reinstall GRUB to the Linux partition boot sector > > Somehow rewrite NTLDR to the MBR > > dd Grub bootsector into grub.bin file and move to Win2000 > > modify the boot.ini file to boot the Linux partition. > > I'd like to do all this (essentially switching out GRUB for NTLDR) > while preserving all data/partitions. Am I dreaming of a > perfect world, or might this be possible? (btw - I dont mean to > suggest that using NTLDR as the bootloader is perfect). What would the > 'some! how write NTLDR to MBR' be if this is possible? > > Thanks so much for your help > > VWISH Let me see if I got what you want. You want the NTLDR to load first, and then the grub, right? Here goes. 1. Boot from Linux CD, save the MBR: dd if=/dev/[sh]da of=/linuxboot.dat bs=512 count=1 2. Reboot using a Windows 9x / DOS floppy/CD. Then: fdisk /mbr From fdisk, make sure you mark the Windows partition as active. 3. Reboot to Windows, copy the MBR copy (from step 1) to C: 4. Edit the boot.ini file, append this line to the end of the file: c:\linuxboot.dat="Fedora Core Linux" 5. Reboot. One last note. Make sure you have a fully working backup before you start; while this should work as described, playing around with a live machine's boot setup without a back is generally considered a very bad idea... Gilboa
