[UCLA-LUG] Using NT Boot Loader to Load Linux

[mike chan]

santosh,

you dd's /dev/fd0, where you probably have to copy the boot sector of
wherever you installed lilo... (hopefully, the beginning of the partition
that you have linux installed on...

try,

dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1

if your lilo is at /dev/hdb1...

then follow your procedure accordingly..

mike

At 09.27 PM 4.9.2000 -0700, you wrote:
>   Hello:     The first drive  has Windows2000 and the second one has Red
>Hat Linux 6.0 for CS  111.   I want to use the NTLOADER's boot.ini to load
>linux instead of  having LILO on the master boot record of the first hard
>drive.     I used the following command in linux to copy the boot sector 
>of the LILO boot disk to a file on the hard drive (bootsect.lnx):   # dd
>if=/dev/fd0 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1   I then copied that file to a
>blank dos formatted disk so that  it can be copied on my C: drive:   #
>mcopy /bootsect.lnx a:   I reboot into Win2K, copied the bootsect.lnx file
>to c:\ and  modifed boot.ini so that the following line is added:  
>c:\bootsect.lnx="Red Hat Linux 6.0"     I get a constant stream of "80"s
>appearing on the screen and  Linux does not boot but the hard drive is
>being thrashed.   Any help would greatly be appreciated.   Thanks for your
>time.   Santosh Kumar       
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