Dual boot FC2T2 and WinXP?

[Phil Schaffner]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 07:47 -0500, Gene C. wrote:


> On Sunday 04 April 2004 11:49, Lutz Heinrichs wrote:
> > I also tried installing GRUB on hdb, then extracting the boot block with
> > 'dd' into a file and referencing the file in WinXPs boot loader. If I
> > boot that entry, the screen reads "GRUB" and the system hangs (does not
> > continue boot process).
> 
> This does not help with the hda problems but it could let you proceed until 
> that is fixed.
> 
> There is a way to put grub onto a floppy and then boot the floppy.  Check the 
> grub info file.  You might also check out installing FC1 with the 2.4 kernel 
> since it does not have the hd partition table problems.


The grub info method creates a floppy that gives you a basic "grub>"
prompt, but a menu interface is a lot friendlier.  The attached script
will create a DOS/FAT-format grub boot floppy with a menu interface.
Won't help much if you can't boot in the first place, but can be run on
another working system and the grub/grub.conf file edited to (hopefully)
boot the one with the problem.  Useful for booting when the MBR is
clobbered (by either bleeding edge Linux or Bill Gates) or for altering
the default boot device/OS/kernel by popping in a floppy.

Phil

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