On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 18:29 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > 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. > Fdisk /mbr will NOT install the needed ntldr on the boot sector (although it is all that is needed for win98). Instead you will need to boot to rescue/repair mode from the 2000/XP install CD and then run the FIXMBR command to put the ntldr on the boot sector. I have always installed grub on the boot sector of the Linux root partition and used that sector to create the image used in Winblows to boot Linux from the 2000/XP boot loader. > > > > Vicki > > Gilboa >
