[PLUG] Dual Booting Linux, Windows XP

Russell Evans russell-evans at qwest.net
Tue Dec 30 11:13:01 UTC 2003


On 30 Dec 2003 11:07:37 -0800
"Marvin J. Kosmal" <lamsokvr at xprt.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 10:54, Russell Evans wrote:
> > On 30 Dec 2003 09:52:05 -0800
> > "Marvin J. Kosmal" <lamsokvr at xprt.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > dd if=/dev/hdb2   of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1
> > > 
> > > Try that.
> > > 
> > > /dev/hda1 is where your current MBR is.
> > > 
> > 
> > Don't do it. /dev/hda1 is not your MBR.
> 
> Ok.. I have been wrong before..
> 
> What is it????

hda1 is the first partition on hda, most likely whatever version of
Windows is installed there. 

Thank you
Russell




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