Hi Thanks a lot for the suggestion! But the thing for that box is: it does
not have a floppy drive ... I boot from CDROM.
Anyway, I did some experiment with it: I took out hda and made hdb the
master/solo drive. But it still does not boot: not even LILO, the CMOS
ESCD gave error and flood the screen with 010101010101....
Then, I boot from CD and reinstall everything on that drive and write LILO
to MBR and then it boots. I put the orginal hda back in and everything
works.
It is a pretty primitive approach. But I am happy it works. :)
Cheers,
Michael
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Doc Shipley wrote:
> Michael,
> I haven't tried this with Win2k, but the boot structure looks just like
> NT 4, so it's worth a shot. First, in Linux, mount a DOS formatted
> floppy. Do, if the Linux root (*not* /boot) partition is /dev/hda1,
>
> # dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/mnt/floppy/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
>
> You can do that from a rescue disk, as long as you have mount & dd.
> Then, in Win2k, copy bootsect.lnx from the floppy to C:\. Make C:\boot.ini
> writable, and add this as the last line:
>
> C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux"
>
> Let the box boot to the first drive, and Linux should appear on the Win2K
> boot menu.
> Let me know if it still works.
>
> --
> Doc Shipley
> Network Stuff
> Austin, Earth
>
>
>
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