I thought I was all set the other day, but ended up with further
problems. I have a laptop. I have both W2K (official company build)
and Linux, RH 7.1 running on my laptop. I used Partition Magic to
shrink down partitions and get the hard drive geometry down. My next
problem was loading it on my machine. Since it was a laptop I had
EITHER a diskette drive or a CD-ROM and hot swapping wouldn't work. If
you select "Custom" you get the options to install the boot loader on
/dev/hda2 (/boot) instead of in the MBR. My hda2 is well below the 1024
barrier but the installation complains about hda5 ( / on out) being
above 1024.
At any rate, I got around it by building a network boot diskette and
using an FTP install. I simply copied the CD images to my Linux server
and then built a network diskette from the image in the images
subdirectory on RH CD 1. It worked first time, pretty slick. It still
complained about 1024 and I didn't feel like messing with LBA32 but at
least this time I could create a bootable diskette when prompted, since
that was installed as my boot device.
So right now I can boot either Linux or W2K at will. Insert the
diskette, boot Linux. Remove the diskette, boot W2K.
What I'd like to do is to use the W2K boot manager. For that I need the
/MBR (or diskette equivalent). I can't figure out how to get that off
of the diskette. Any suggestions? I tried dd /dev/fd0 ... and it can't
find, or doesn't like, fd0. Mounting the floppy and issuing the command
to the mount location doesn't work either.
Thanks for any help. GGK
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