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From: Brent Harding <bharding@ufw2.com>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: windows millennium
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 16:00:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001111160030.007c61d0@mail.ufw2.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011110237180.13375-100000@oak.ivanfetch.tzo .com>

Why not use other=/dev/hda1
label=win
 to boot win2k? Does win2k care more about the boot sector than windows-98
did. I've been doing it this way awhile now.
At 02:48 AM 11/11/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>   Here are my experiences with Redhat 6.2 and Windows 2000...
>
>   After an install of Redhat hosed the MBR, I ran `lilo -U' to uninstall
>LILO (which also restores your original boot record).  If this does not
>work for someone, you can also boot from the Windows 2000 CD (or 4
>diskettes) to "repair master boot record."  I edited /etc/lilo.conf to put
>LILO on /dev/hda2 (the Linux partition) instead of just /dev/hda (the
>MBR) and ran `lilo' so my changes would take affect.  Now the part
>everyone cares about...  I put my Linux boot sector into a file with:
>`dd if=/dev/hda of=bootsec.lnx bs=512 count=1'
>
>I coppied this to my windows 2000 partition (use a DOS floppy disk,
>network, or what ever works for you) and then booted Windows 2000.  From a
>command prompt I made the c:\boot.ini editable via `attrib -s -h
>c:\boot.ini' and then edited it with `notepad c:\boot.ini'.
>
>In the [operating systems] section I added the line:
>c:\bootsec.lnx="Linux"
>
>I then saved the file, ran `attrib +s +h c:\boot.ini' to put the
>attributes back the way they were, and I can now down arrow to Linux as
>soon as I know the windows 2000 boot loader comes up and press enter to
>have LILO loaded.
>
>I of course include commands which are typed at the keyboard in quotes
>like `command...' and you are not supposed to type the characters ` or '
>as part of the command. ;)
>
>Hope this helps,
>Ivan.
>
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Saqib Shaikh
 ` Luke Davis
   ` Ivan Fetch
   ` David Poehlman
     [not found]   ` <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011110237180.13375-100000@oak.ivanfetch.tzo .com>
     ` Brent Harding [this message]
       ` Ivan Fetch
   ` Victor Tsaran

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