Dual Booting with Windows Boot Loader

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Did you actually install LILO onto /dev/hda6?  (You probably installed
grub -- I have never used grub, but it should be the same thing,
effectively, but I dont know for sure).

LILO has a three-stage boot process.  The first-stage loader is in the
MBR or the bootsector of the partition, the second-stable loader is
run from there, and the third-stage is your OS.  You generally just
need to get a copy of the first-stage loader, which the commands you
ran would actually do for you...

Since you are probably running grub, however, I dont know what
to tell you.  Did you try to RTFM for grub?

-derek

George Flaherty <georgef at atg.com> writes:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> I was wondering if someone could help me figure out what is going on
> with my dual boot of Win Xp and RH 7.2 with implementing the Windows
> Boot Loader.
> 
> I copied the the boot sector of my linux install and placed it on my
> windows partition. The command I used to create this was:
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> 
> Where hda6 was my linux root partition.
> 
> Yet after modifying the windows boot.ini and launching the boot manager,
> I did not get any response.
> 
> So I then tried to copy the boot sector from my boot "floppy" disk via
> 
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> 
> Still nothing? Which I thought was strange since the boot "floppy" disk
> does work and boot up Linux?
> 
> I guess I must be missing something? Any ideas?
> thanks
> -g
>  
> 
> 
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