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Multiboot Fedora and Windows XP

Hello
I'm a TOTAL new user on linux, so if you would like to answer please be very detailed.

I would like to use windows Boot-loader to boot Fedora. Right now I get the Fedora boot loader where I can choose to boot Fedroa right away or go on to my ordinary boot-meny whit windows boot-loader, and Yes it works.

But I would rather use the windows boot loader directly to boot Fedora, So how do I do this?

Please dont send any replayis about that I shud use the Fedora build in boot loader, if you are about to write an aswer to say this please read my message agin !

Have in mind that i'm 100 % new at Linux, I'm a complite idiot, answer detailed, please.

How are your bootloaders configured right now? GRUB in the mbr, Windows bootloader on another partition or on a different disk?
It'll also help if you can post the output of "/sbin/fdisk -l"

If you have a floppy drive, you can forego the linux boot loader completely. Boot into Windoze by default, or put in a floppy to boot Linux. Keeps your windoze mbr from needing reinstalling if you take Linux off the box. (like that will ever happen huh?

believe me
going the other way round ,with windows bootloader loading linux is much tough that using grub/lilo

but still if u want to boot linux using windows , i am not sure but u need to put some files in windows partition called 'loadlin' etc etc

refer this article

http://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/~lermen/manual.txt

regards
gaurav

Quote:

Originally posted by Demonbane
How are your bootloaders configured right now? GRUB in the mbr, Windows bootloader on another partition or on a different disk?
It'll also help if you can post the output of "/sbin/fdisk -l"

Yes GRUB in the mbr, and windows is on the same disk but a diffrent portion.
Here are the result of fdisk -l : (translation from swedish)

Disk /dev/hda: 22,6 GB, 22605004800 byte
255 head, 63 sectors/lines, 2748 sylinders
device = sylinder of 16065 x 512 = 8225280 byte

Device..........avtive.....Begin.....End....Block.............Id.....System
/dev/hda1.......*................1.....574....4610623+.....7......HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda1.....................575.....1148..4610655.......83....LINUX
/dev/hda1....................1149....2748..12852000.....f.......Win98 extended (LBA)
/dev/hda1....................1149....2748..12851968+...b......Win95 FAT32

I have 1 Windows XP portion
I have 1 NTFS portion for programs
I have 1 LINUX portion

Don't now what you mean by " /sbin/fdisk -l " I only opend a terminal and typed in " fdisk -l", right ? (that was hard for me to figure out !)

hii LemBit

have a look at the url i gave u in my lat post
this will help u in setting up ur system as u want it

http://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/~lermen/manual.txt

regards

ok what you need to do is first install GRUB into your Linux partition partition sector, in order to ahieve this here's the commands you can execute in Linux:

Code:

/sbin/grub

(grub prompt will appear)



grub> root (hd0,1)

grub> setup (hd0,1)

after thats done extract it by using

Code:

dd if=/dev/hda2 of=linux.bin bs=512 count=1

copy linux.bin into a floppy disk, or in your FAT partition where its accessible from Windows.
Now boot with the WinXP CD into the Recovery console, and do a "fixmbr".
Once thats done boot into Windows, copy linux.bin into C:\(or wherever boot.ini is) then add the following line to it:

Code:

c:\linux.bin="Linux"

Note that boot.ini is hidden by default
Also you do not need to use loadlin.