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« on: 19 September 2004, 21:19 »
Help. I'm trying to dual boot windows with linux. I have installed linux, but but now I can't find the bootsect.lnx file. Can anyone help?
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« Reply #1 on: 19 September 2004, 22:01 »
Never heard of that.  Why would you need it?  :confused:
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« Reply #2 on: 19 September 2004, 22:23 »
I need it for the Windows XP boot loader to be able to run linux from my second partition on my hard disk.
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« Reply #3 on: 20 September 2004, 00:43 »
Why not have Grub do it all?
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« Reply #4 on: 20 September 2004, 00:50 »
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Originally posted by WMD:
Why not have Grub do it all?


Windows is on my primary partition. GRUB is for linux only.
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« Reply #5 on: 20 September 2004, 01:33 »
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Canadian Lover: Windows is on my primary partition. GRUB is for linux only.


Get LILO.
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« Reply #6 on: 20 September 2004, 01:36 »
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Originally posted by Canadian Lover:


Windows is on my primary partition. GRUB is for linux only.


Then maybe you want to explain to me HOW I was using Grub to switch between XP and RH9, right up to the point where I FUBAR'd the RedHat install?  Trust me, you can use Grub for that, too.   ;)
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« Reply #7 on: 20 September 2004, 02:55 »
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Windows is on my primary partition. GRUB is for linux only.

Eh?  Grub doesn't sit on any partition.  It goes in the MBR, which is separate from hda1/2/etc.
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« Reply #8 on: 20 September 2004, 02:57 »
Install Windows
Install Linux
Install grub

reboot to test

no problem.
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« Reply #9 on: 20 September 2004, 04:15 »
How do I install GRUB?  :confused:
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« Reply #10 on: 20 September 2004, 04:38 »
If it isn't included in your installation procedure, I would "man grub" and find out.
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« Reply #11 on: 20 September 2004, 06:04 »
A major distro like suse would have both grub and lilo in a nice and easy installation format.Which version of suse are you using?
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« Reply #12 on: 20 September 2004, 06:06 »
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A major distro like suse would have both grub and lilo in a nice and easy installation format.Which version of suse are you using?


9.1 and it failed when suse tried to install grub
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« Reply #13 on: 20 September 2004, 07:43 »
Linux 2.6 and NT Windows XP are known to have problems with dual boots...
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« Reply #14 on: 20 September 2004, 08:28 »
Not on my computer, they don't.  But FC2 writes grub to the MBR during installation, and it might have some goofy args that it passes or something.

Seriously, the literature is available - I doubt you are the first person to ever be unable to install grub.  Google away.
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