On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 13:59, Ramon de los Reyes wrote: > good day, > > i have installed win98,win2000,rh9 in one hd. When i boot, grub > doesn't load, only the windows loader. during installation i opted to > install grub to the partition where rh9 was installed not in the mbr. > A friend of mine suggested that i should install it in the mbr or find > a third party boot manager like boot magic to boot from the > configuration that i want (i.e. load it in the partition where rh was > installed and not it the mbr), Is there no other way to boot it > without a third party boot manager?
Installing grub in the MBR should work without any problems. It should be able to boot Win98, Win2000, and RH9. If you want to use Windows 2000's boot manager, you have to have a boot disk to boot into your RH9 installation. Then, as root, type: dd if=/dev/hda# of=/root/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 where /dev/hda# is the partition where you installed RH9 in (ie /dev/hda5), of=/root/linux.bin is the output file. bs=512 is what you need to get the boot sector of the partition. Then, copy the linux.bin file into your C:\ drive. Edit the file "boot.ini" in your windows partition. Simply add a link that says: C:\linux.bin="Red Hat 9" or whatever file you outputted to. You may hide and make into a system file the linux.bin file (attrib +s +h C:\linux.bin), so at least no one will accidentally delete the file. That should be it. If you ever decide to use LILO, you have to do this each time you run lilo (whenever installing a new kernel, for example). If you are using grub, there's no need. dex -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
