--- Georg Schinnerl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> then use the following command to write this bootsector into a file > "dd if=/dev/hdb5 of=/root/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1" > > copy the file "boot.lnx" to your windows partition and add a line > similar to the following to your "boot.ini" that's how i dual-booted XP and Fedora4. i've done that this time as well, but it's not working. i won't dwell on it, though, as it's off topic for this forum. thank you nonetheless for the advice. Alan Lord wrote: " If your BIOS allows you to select which disk to boot from (mine offers a menu at boot time if I press F8) you can install grub on hdb without having to overwrite your windows bootloader which is on hda." Thanks for -reminding- me about this. I hadn't thought to try that. Doing so allowed the grub loader to work its menu magic. So yesterday, I got a glimpse of my linux system booted from a rescue floppy, and today I got to see a GRUB menu for the first time. :-D One thing I noticed in doing this, was that my hard drives were swapped in grub, but not once the LFS Operating System took over. What I mean by that is that where LFS's hda was grub's (hd0) and hdb was grub's (hd1), after I changed the boot priority in my BIOS, hda (the windows drive) was grub's (hd1) and hdb (linux) was (hd0) according to the grub rescue floppy disk. Once I had booted LFS, however, my slave drive was still hdb and my original master drive was still (by process of elimination) hda. I hope I didn't confuse anyone by saying that. I intend to play around with the rescue floppy to figure out exactly what menu commands I need to add to get grub to boot both OS's, and I will probably overwrite the MBR... eventually. Then I'll be FREE! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
