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Could Not locate Bootsect.lnx



oh.....
 
any time you make any changes to lilo.conf (new kernel, entry for
windows) you need to recreate the bootsect.lnx file......

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard, John 
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 8:59 AM
To: discuss at Blu.Org
Subject: RE: Could Not locate Bootsect.lnx



You need to make bootsect.lnx with the dd command: 
  
dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/boot/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 
  
where /dev/hda1 is your /boot partition. You can use the mount command 
to find out what is mounted where. If you only have a / patrition, use 
that. I will assume you are dual booting  win2k or winNT, and it is on 
the c: drive. If your  M$ Winblows partition is mounted as /mnt/c you 
could use /mnt/c/bootsect.lnx as the out file so you will not have to 
move it later. If you do not have your c: partition mounted, copy the 
bootsect.lnx file to a floppy, boot winblows and copy the file to c:\. 
  
Once you have bootsect.lnx on the windows c: partition, you add a entry 
to c:\boot.ini in the [operating systems] section: 
  
c:\bootsect.lnx="RedHat Linux 7.1 is the best choice here" 
  
  
  

-----Original Message----- 
From: NAI [ mailto:dealer at usa.com <mailto:dealer at usa.com> ] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 9:14 PM 
To: discuss at Blu.Org 
Subject: Re: Could Not locate Bootsect.lnx 


Hi all, 
Need help - i try to find 'Bootsect.lnx' for dual boot. 
I could not find it. 
Please help where 'Bootsect.lnx' is sitting. 
I use RedHat 7.1 
  
Thanks 

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