SEO

Thanks for reading my post and any suggestion is welcomed.

HW:
1. Sony GRZ610 laptop: P2.0GHz; 256MB; 40GB HD; DVD/CDRW combo; no
floppy drive.

OS:
1. Win XP in first partition of 25 GB.
2. RH9 in second partition of 15GB. 2.4.20-8 kernel. All rh9, except
swap disk, is in one partition.
3. various drivers doesn't work in this kernel: modem, wireless, usb.
and I am about to recompile kernel with acpi support and this brings
me the concern of my current boot situation.
4. Only connection I have from rh9 is ethernet.

The problem is really about the grub. It seems that I can't back up
boot img during rh installation b/c of no floppy driver. The only
choice I can place grub during installation is the MBR, although this
is the least thing I want to do. (not sure if linux still have 8GB
restriction for boot img).

Since the original xp MBR is replaced with grub, if I crashed grub I
am afraid I will lose xp too. Therefore, can I recover MBR back with
the xp boot.ini and copy rh's boot img to xp? If I unluckily have to
reinstall rh9, how can I have grub not to replace the mbr?

(I used to place boot.img in xp when I had a floppy on my old laptop.)

Thanks very much.

Andy wrote:

> Since the original xp MBR is replaced with grub, if I crashed grub I
> am afraid I will lose xp too. Therefore, can I recover MBR back with
> the xp boot.ini and copy rh's boot img to xp? If I unluckily have to
> reinstall rh9, how can I have grub not to replace the mbr?

.... install it (grub) to the root partition and use the
nt boot loader to boot Linux
http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/cats/running_multiple.html
..
--
/// Michael J. Tobler: motorcyclist, surfer, skydiver, \\\
\\\ and author: "Inside Linux", "C++ HowTo", "C++ Unleashed" ///
\\\ http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mtobler/mjt_linux_page.html ///
"The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up!"

Thank you for your suggestion. However, you may miss the point that
this computer system doesn't have a floppy driver. So when intalled
linux to boot partition. The nt loader will never get chance to be
informed of linux system, since linux needs to be boot once to get
boot.img. You see the deadlock?

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 07:57:25 -0700, Andy typed:

> Thank you for your suggestion. However, you may miss the point that this
> computer system doesn't have a floppy driver. So when intalled linux to
> boot partition. The nt loader will never get chance to be informed of
> linux system, since linux needs to be boot once to get boot.img. You see
> the deadlock?

No problem.

Boot with the first RH9 CD at the prompt type; linux rescue

Read the screens carefully, they will tell you how to use chroot

After booting install grub to the first Linux partition;

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...nstalling.html

Follow the instructions here;

http://www.redhat.com/advice/tips/dualboot.html

Download and install;

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

Copy the bootsect.lnx file to the root of your primary XP partition(C:\)


--
SCO + RICO Act = Justice