Re: By NT loader booting GRUB and Linux

[Mark Bober]

To boot Linux out of the NT loader, do this:

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1

where /dev/hda1 is whatever partition you installed grub to, perhaps
hda5 in your case?

Take the bootsect.lnx file you made, copy it to the C:\ on the NT
partition.

Add this at the bottom of your boot.ini:

C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux GRUB Boot"

This *should* work for NT, I did this under Win2k on a laptop I set up
for someone and
it works, I believe NT and 2k share the same bootloader style. (this was
also with LILO)

Do keep in mind that any time you modify your Linux boot sector (say a
new version of
GRUB, perhaps) you'll need to do this again.

MAB



Tommi Borg wrote:
> 
> Still want to use NT as the loader for WIN98 and NT itself.  I have
> now installed GRUB on the Linux-root and not on the /MBR.  In the
> first partition of 45GB harddisk is win98 on FAT16, second is NT on
> NTFS and below 8.4GB limit is installed Linux. The booting of Linux by
> GRUB is done still by floppy.
> 
> During mounting rest partitions after Linux I found out that there
> happened some odd with the labeling order of the partitions.  I got
> later fixed the problem and now there is a lot of stuff and do not
> want anymore to go backward and use LILO.  Also if I have understood
> right, GRUB will boot other Linux-versions on my second harddisk, if
> they are GRUB-bootable types.
> 
> Not found any simple solution to do with BootPart 2.2 or NT
> loader by Boot.ini file something as follows:
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\????   for booting GRUB.  Do
> anyone know simple and good solution for people still wanting to have
> another leg on NT during going to Linux-world?
> 
> Tommi Borg
> 
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