There is an excellent tutorial by D Robbins on grub.
Someone posted the URL a day or so ago but I'm not at a
machine where I can get to it but it is recommended
reading.
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:36:21 -0500
"Kevin J. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You could also install grub into your root partition, use
dd to copy the
first 512k out into a file, transfer that file to your xp
c:\ root, and then
use XP's boot.ini to give you the option to boot linux
instead of xp. This
is the way I have always done dual boots w/ nt/2k/xp and
I find it to be
much less "dangerous" esp since windows seems to like the
situtation much
better.
I think setup (hd0,2) root (hd0,2) would be the grub
commands (please
correct me if I am wrong)
then you can use this command in linux dd if=/dev/hda3
of=/bootsect.lnx
bs=512 count=1
transfer that file somehow over to your c:\ (floppy, ftp
it somewhere else,
bring it back down, etc)
add c:\Bootsect.lnx="Gentoo Linux" to your boot.ini
google for "boot.ini dd linux dual boot" for more info on
the subject, as my
explanation is very cut and dry.
kev
->-----Original Message-----
->From: Jeremy Workman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
->Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:14 PM
->To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
->Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub help (hda1=winxp,
hda3=linux)
->
->
->I notice you said you tried "setup (hd0,0)". That would
be the first
->partition on the first hard drive (/dev/hda1). To
install Grub into the
->master boot record the command would be "setup (hd0)".
->
->Hope this helps.
->
->
->On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 13:04, Ajay Sharma wrote:
->> hey everyone,
->>
->> I just finished rebuilding my machine and I
repartitioned my
->box so that
->> it looks like:
->>
->> /dev/hda1 = windows xp (ntfs)
->> /dev/hda2 = linux swap
->> /dev/hda3 = gentoo (ext3)
->>
->> no, I don't have a separate /boot partition. Anyway,
I followed the
->> installation instructions (excellent btw!) and I'm
having problems
->> getting grub to install on my MBR. In the grub
prompt, when I type in
->> "root(hd0,0)" it would come back with something like
"unrecognized file
->> type". After that it's pretty obvious that the
"setup(hd0,0)" wasn't
->> going to work. I then ran root(hd0,2) and that went
over fine but now
->> when I boot up it goes right into windows xp and not
the grub boot
->> loader because it's not installed on the MBR.
->>
->> I'd appreciate any help.
->>
->> Thanks,
->> Ajay
->>
->>
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