Thanks for your help Ken and Michael. This is just an update.
The command worked this time, and I really don't know why last night was
different than before. I did make sure the floppy was unmounted, as Michael
suggested.
Of course, it still wouldn't work :-(. I suspect the problem is my c: drive
being NTFS although I don't understand the exact reasoning. At least one how
to or guide that I read suggested I could have problems with NTFS. I tried
putting the bootsect.lnx out on the d: drive, which is FAT32 but that didn't
work either. If I specify c:\bootsect.lnx it says "BOOT FAILURE". If I
specify d:\bootsect.lnx it gives me some W2K error message.
I tried to use Partition Magic to change my c: drive from NTFS to FAT32 but
that wouldn't work.
I'll do some more digging in the newsgroups and figure out what I'd like to
do. I'll probably end up with a third party boot manager. I want to be able
to make the decision at boot time, so loadlin is out.
Thanks again.
Ken Ambrose wrote:
> The dd command should do the trick, so long as your system even *sees* fd0
> (you might want to check your /var/log/messages and make sure that this is
> the case). Here's the syntax I use:
>
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=<name of file for MBR> bs=512 count=1
>
> I don't remember what all it stands for, but my mneumonics are,
> respectively, "in file," "out file," "block size", with a count of one
> block.
>
> -Ken
>
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Greg Kettmann wrote:
>
> > 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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