On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:59 +0000, Vicki Walsh wrote: > >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. > > I'm a little confused. Should I be dd'ing the MBR or should I be > installing grub on the Linux partition and then dd'ing the bootsector? > Also this is on Win2000 using NTFS. Does that have or support > fdisk /mbr? > > I already have both windows and fedora installed with Grub running as > the bootmanager. Apologies if I am misunderstanding anything in the > answers to my mailings as I am still a newbie and dont always > understand everything yet. > > Thanks for all the assistance I am receiving so far, If grub is already installed on your MBR, use dd to save the grub's MBR and clean it. (by using fdisk /mbr). Copy it to your Windows partition and add it to your boot.ini. > > Vicki Gilboa
