Re: Selecting boot drive from BIOS

[Steve <bassix gmail com>]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:14:29 -0400, Filippos Klironomos
<presariod gmail com> wrote:
> 
> This is the way I dual boot on my laptop. Just install GRUB on the
> slave driver when you are given the option and leave the MBR alone
> (Windows XP has to has to has to have it!). Then boot to linux and
> give the following command:
> 
> dd if=/dev/hdX of=/tmp/bootrecord.bin bs=512 count=1
> 
> This will create the file /tmp/bootrecord.bin which has the 512 bytes
> of GRUB. Copy that to your win XP dir most likely 'C:' and edit
> boot.ini file in the same dir and add at the end of it:
> 
> C:\bootrecord.bin="Fedora Core 2"
> 
> Save and exit and you should be all set! Here is a link:
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

Thanks for your very concise instructions! My first question was a
scenario where I would not want to boot to XP very often... but your
idea gives more flexibility.