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Topic: dsl2.3 on hdb5, XP on hda1, got no grub on hda1?

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Patrick

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Posted: April 05 2006,13:30

Hello,

I did a frugal grub install on my second hd (hdb5), somewhere in the installation-script ("install" at the boot-prompt of dsl) came the question if i had Windows on hda1. I answered YES. Now i can't boot to DSL (pc still boots to xp)

My data:

hda1 (xp ntfs)
hda5 (fat32 partition)
hdb5 (DSL 2.3 final)
hdb6 (ntfs partition)
hdb7 (fat32 partition)

I wanted to make a perminent /opt and /home on one of the fat32 partitions... (but that question never came)

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mikshaw

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Posted: April 05 2006,13:44

Windows doesn't like to boot anything but Windows. If you don't have a Linux-capable bootloader in your master boot record you will need to use some other boot device, such as a floppy.

You will not have a very nice time using persistent directories on a fat filesystem. This filesystem does not do file permissions.

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Patrick

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Posted: April 06 2006,17:25

I made a copy of the bootsector (file is
?called: bootDSL) of the second HD and edited the boot.ini of XP

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
C:\bootDSL="Linux"

Still i can't load DSL from the bootmenu.

? (should this have worked?)

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xawtv imagemagick xplanet

doobit

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Posted: April 06 2006,17:37

The grub bootloader should have installed in the Windows MBR. It has worked fine for me everytime I've done it. I think you will need to edit boot/grub/menu.lst, not the Windows bootloader, to know that there is a second hard drive with DSL installed there. It already seems to have the correct info for Windows since it boots OK to Windows still. The home and opt partitions or directories are something you can add later, but they should be on Linux partitions, like Mikshaw said.

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