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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