NO BOOT!!! NT loader

Sean Stagg scstagg at wisc.edu
Wed Dec 17 19:48:36 UTC 2003


I'm new to Linux and wanted to use the NT loader as I still want XP to work 
well. I have two 120GB drives, hda with XP and recently installed hdb with 
Fedora. I want to use nt loader and not have to monkey around with the MBR 
of hda as She Who Must Be Obeyed uses this (for the time being). I looked 
at some docs before I installed and configured advanced boot loader options 
so that it installed GRUB on the first sector of the boot partition. I also 
followed the rest of http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html but the 
only thing that happens when I select Linux from the nt boot menu is a 
blinking underscore, Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work so I have to hit the power 
button. Also, I have physically unhooked hda and set hdb as single and the 
same thing happens. What's going on??? I've also tried bootpart but that 
doesn't work either, it gives a weird <windowsroot>system32\hda.dll not 
found (something like that). PLEASE HELP!!! NTFS for the XP HD btw.
Also, what would happen if I disconnected hda and made fedora think that I 
only had one drive when installing and then hooking it back up like before? 
(As I might be trying that, although I don't think it would like it)





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