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Posted: Oct. 18 2004,03:13 |
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OK, i'm almost there, but I need a little help gettign the last mile.
Problem:
I have a Vaio SR17k, with no boot options except HD. (Bios only support Sony's overpiced, no longer produced CDRom)
Solution:
DSL + NTLDR = Goodness.
I edited Windows 2000's boot.ini to load the NT version of grubGRUB called ntldr. When Win2000's boot loader starts GRUB, GRUB finds the c:\boot\menu.lst file to link to the kernel and image files from the c:\boot\ directory.
I found the kernel and image files in the ISO, which are linux24 and minirt.bin, and placed them in C:\boot\. Also, I put the entire directory structure of the the DSL ISO in C:\ ,
Now DSL boots just like it would with a CD boot, (it takes awhile to find to search for the CD rom's files but it does find them) The system is super fast for this old computer. The problem is that DSL thinks its running on a CD and in fact looking thought the /mnt directory all my harddrives files are in /mnt/cdrom .
I would like to do a harddrive install to my second partition... Any ideas about how to do this? I can't allow DSL to alter my MBR, and I don't think the HDinstaller is smart enough to figure out how I hacked up this GRUB thing.
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