Quick dual boot question...

AMDPwred · 09-30-2002, 10:00 PM

I installed RH8 on a second partition with my XP partition being number 1. After the install of RH8 Windows booted up. I've searched on how to edit the boot.ini file in Windows to give an option but it's talking about copying a file from Linux into Windows. Yet I cannot boot into Linux. I tried to create a boot disk during the install but it wouldn't work. Does anyone know how I can edit the boot.ini file in Windows to offer Linux as a bootable OS?

neo77777 · 09-30-2002, 10:08 PM

Can you boot to linux from a CD - rescue mode, you might want to specify the location of root root=/dev/hdb1 for instance.

AMDPwred · 09-30-2002, 10:32 PM

Ok, I booted into Linux with the rescue mode. I'm at a command prompt and they mounted my install at /mnt/sysimage. How can I create that Bootsec.lin file to take to Windows and edit the boot.ini for? When I tried "dd if=/dev/hda3 bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/floppy/Bootsec.lin" I got "No such file or dir (talking about the mnt part)". Any ideas?

linuxcool · 09-30-2002, 10:42 PM

Did you mount the floppy drive before using the dd command?

AMDPwred · 09-30-2002, 10:47 PM

When I do "mount /mnt/floppy" I get "Cannot read /etc/fstab: No such file or directory".

linuxcool · 09-30-2002, 10:53 PM

That means that there is no entry for " /mnt/floppy " in your fstab file. Try the command
" mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ". Check to make sure that you have a directory named " /floppy " first. If you don't, just create one in the /mnt directory.

AMDPwred · 09-30-2002, 10:53 PM

That last one worked, let me boot into Win quick and see what happens.

AMDPwred · 09-30-2002, 11:03 PM

It looks like all is good at the moment. Thanks for your fast help.

linuxcool · 09-30-2002, 11:07 PM

You're welcome.

AMDPwred · 09-30-2002, 11:10 PM

BTW, in case you are wondering, the look and feel of RH8 rules.

Amerist · 10-01-2002, 01:29 AM

Is Anti-aliased fonts support better in RH8 than RH 7?

born4linux · 10-01-2002, 03:20 AM

I am currently downloading 8.0 (all sites are a major traffic). Any note on 3D games?

AMDPwred · 10-01-2002, 11:59 AM

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Originally posted by Amerist
Is Anti-aliased fonts support better in RH8 than RH 7?

The interface is much improved. Fonts are much better than before. Everything is so smooth.