NO BOOT!!! NT loader

Charles Curley charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Thu Dec 18 18:31:42 UTC 2003


On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:48:36PM -0600, Sean Stagg wrote:
> 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)

Try this:

http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

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