On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Raoul Anderson wrote:
> Hi - I have set up a test machine as follows;
> Partition 1 - Windows 98
> Partition 2 - Windows 2000 Professional
> Partition 3 - Windows 2000 Server
> Partition 4 - Red Hat 7
> Partition 5 - Linux Swap File
>
> They all installed without any problem, and can boot from the NT loader all
> windows OS's without any dramas. I can boot to RH 7 if I insert the floppy
> boot disk I created on install also, but I would like to get RH 7 into my
> boot loader. So far I have done the following;
>
> booted in linux;
> dd if=/dev/hda7 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt (with a win98 boot disk inserted)
> cp /bootsect.lnx /mnt
> unmount /mnt
>
> then booted in windows;
> copied bootsect.lnx into c:\
> edited boot.ini to include the following;
> c:\bootsect.lnx="Red Hat 7.0"
>
> the extra extry then appears in the boot menu, but when selected just makes
> the screen go blank and eventually reboots. I am pretty sure that when I
> boot to linux from the floppy the partition which linux is installed onto is
> on /dev/hda7, so what have I done wrong?
>
> TIA
>
> Raoul
>
In your /etc/lilo.conf, does it have the line boot=/dev/hda7? Did you
run lilo after you booted up Linux from the floppy, so that the lilo
first stage loader get written to /dev/hda7? Is the location of the
kernel accessable to the BIOS. (You man nave to use the lba32 option of
lilo.) From what you are saying, it does not sound like lilo is being
loaded, so it may not have been written to /dev/hda7 before you made
bootsect.lnx.
Mikkel
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