Hiya,
I'm having some trouble dual booting using the NTLDR method - NTLDR is doing its job fine, it seems that dumping the boot sector for linux is where its going wrong...
I'm doing
dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 and it works fine, but the file is just 512 zeros.
Exact details of what i've done so far are -
- Installed Redhat 9 on the second partition (ext3) of my master drive with XP already on the first partition.
- Chose to instal LILO into the beginning of the partition.
- Dumped the beginning of the second partition to /bootsect.lnx.
- Mounted the first partition of my drive (FAT32) as vfat and copied the /bootsect.lnx file over.
- Added C:\bootsect.lnx="Redhat 9" to C:\boot.ini.
I get the NTLDR menu when I boot but when I choose Redhat 9, the screen clears and nothing happens (which is what you'd expect from a file of 0's).
My guess is that somehow LILO didn't get installed into the beginning of the partition... if this is correct, how exactly can I install it in there? I've looked at
man lilo but it doesn't say anything about installing to MBR/beginning of partition.
Many Thanks,
Spookie.