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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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available