Hi all,
This is my first real venture into Linux and I'm failing at the first step, I can't boot it the way I want to!
I've recently built myself a nice new 64 bit system and want to try out Linux on it. So far I have XP32 and XP64 booting perfectly in their own partitions on a SATA drive, I've got Suse Linux 9.2 installed in its own partition on the same drive. The drive is split into 4 partitions 3 NTFS and 50gb for the Linux install.
I'm trying to extract the boot info for LILO so that I can copy it to the root drive of my windows XP install. The command I'm using is: 'dd if=/dev/sda4 bs=512 count=1 of=/sys/boot.lnx'. This one fails every time saying I can't write to /sys/. I tried it this way: 'dd if=/dev/sda4 bs=512 count=1 of=/root/boot.lnx', this let me write the file, but when I try to boot Linux, nothing happens. I've tried both ways logged in as Root and also logged in normally and changing to a SuperUser, same results every time.
The Linux install is there, it boots fine from the CD, and the windows boot.ini file looks to be OK:
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP x32" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP x64" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
C:\boot.lnx="Suse Linux"
I've searched around the net for solutions, but can't find anything that helps. Can any of you help?
Cheers. -- Andy
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