Switching from GRUB to NTLDR

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 16:29:29 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:59 +0000, Vicki Walsh wrote:
> >Let me see if I got what you want.
> >You want the NTLDR to load first, and then the grub, right?
> >Here goes.
> 
> >1. Boot from Linux CD, save the MBR:
> >dd if=/dev/[sh]da of=/linuxboot.dat bs=512 count=1
> >2. Reboot using a Windows 9x / DOS floppy/CD. Then:
> >fdisk /mbr
> >From fdisk, make sure you mark the Windows partition as active.
> >3. Reboot to Windows, copy the MBR copy (from step 1) to C:
> >4. Edit the boot.ini file, append this line to the end of the file:
> >c:\linuxboot.dat="Fedora Core Linux"
> >5. Reboot.
> 
> I'm a little confused. Should I be dd'ing the MBR or should I be
> installing grub on the Linux partition and then dd'ing the bootsector?
> Also this is on Win2000 using NTFS. Does that have or support
> fdisk /mbr?
>  
> I already have both windows and fedora installed with Grub running as
> the bootmanager. Apologies if I am misunderstanding anything in the
> answers to my mailings as I am still a newbie and dont always
> understand everything yet.
>  
> Thanks for all the assistance I am receiving so far,

If grub is already installed on your MBR, use dd to save the grub's MBR
and clean it. (by using fdisk /mbr).
Copy it to your Windows partition and add it to your boot.ini.

>  
> Vicki

Gilboa




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