[PLUG] bootloader for /dev/hdb

Randy.Dunlap rddunlap at osdl.org
Wed Apr 10 18:46:26 UTC 2002


On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Jeme A Brelin wrote:

|
| On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 14:19, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| > At home I have Win2K/NTFS on /dev/hda (or C:, for family use) and
| > Linux on /dev/hdb.
| > Currently I boot Linux from floppy (s.l.o.w).
| >
| > Is there a decent solution for booting Linux on /dev/hdb without using
| > a floppy?  (gosh I hope so)
| >
| > According to some dual boot web pages and HOWTOs, LILO can't boot from
| > an NTFS partition, but I tried it anyway, and got "LIL-"....dead.
|
| How did you then recover your Win2K boot sector?

dd (had it backed up).

| One option is install LILO in the boot record of the partition that holds
| /boot rather than in the MBR of the primary disk, then use dd to write the
| boot record of that partition to a file.  You can move that file to your
| Win2K partition and point the Win2K Boot Loader at that file.

Yes, I've tried that also, but it failed too.
Some web pages that I've read say that this works with FAT partitions
on hda but not with NTFS (only) on hda.
Maybe I just need a newer LILO.  I'll check on that or on grub.

| The drawback is that you'll have to repeat that process every time you
| upgrade your kernel.

Yeah, not satisfactory for me.

Thanks,
-- 
~Randy





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