Hi: I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. I made a dos boot CD using instructions at bblcd and used loadlin to boot into linux. Then I used the following command to create a linux.bin file
dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 I copied linux.bin to /dev/hdb4 which is my vfat partition. I rebooted the machine and logged in as root into XP. I copied the file linux.bin to C: and added the following entry to boot.ini C:\linux.bin="Debian Linux" I rebooted again and selected "Debian Linux" from the menu. I got a bunch of 0s and 7s filling up my whole screen but it never booted into linux. I also tried GRUB with GRUB installed on /dev/hda which is my first hard disk. Upon rebooting the words GRUB were printed at the top left corner of the screen and the machine simply hung after that. Ctrl-Alt-Delete got me out of that and I used the XP recovery console to fix my MBR and restored the machine so I could boot XP. I can boot into linux using my dos cd and loadlin but would like to boot into it without having to do this. Oh and I did upgrade my bios but the problem persists. Any help with dual booting XP and Linux with XP boot loader will be much appreciated. Regards Abhay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
