On 1/11/06, Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
With the dd step you are taking the MRB that should have GRUB on it already and putting it into a file. NTLDR uses files to load the boot managers rather than chainloading to a bootsector. You don't have to "reinstall" GRUB anywhere. You just have to save it and put it somewhere and in some form that NTLDR can use it.
A note ... after step one save the dd'ed file somewhere permanent. It may be obvious to some but just figured I would mention it.
/Mike
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:59 +0000, Vicki Walsh wrote:
> >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?
With the dd step you are taking the MRB that should have GRUB on it already and putting it into a file. NTLDR uses files to load the boot managers rather than chainloading to a bootsector. You don't have to "reinstall" GRUB anywhere. You just have to save it and put it somewhere and in some form that NTLDR can use it.
A note ... after step one save the dd'ed file somewhere permanent. It may be obvious to some but just figured I would mention it.
/Mike
