[Techtalk] Re-installing GRUB, dual boot win2k

[PMarshall at flyingrhino.com]

To get the puppy to boot (if you have Windows on hda and Linux on hdb),
mount a DOS formatted floppy disk while you're in Linux.  At the CLI, type
the following:
dd if=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin

Unmount and remove the floppy and boot into Windows.  Copy the linux.bin
off the floppy into the root of the Windows drive (usually c:).  Open the
file called boot.ini in Notepad (you may have to play with File->Options to
get it to show hidden and protected files) and add the line c:
\linux.bin=Red Hat 8.0 (or whatever distro you're using) at the end of the
file (make sure you put in a return) and save it.  From then on, when you
boot into windows, you will have the option of going into Linux when the
boot menu comes up.

HTH,
Pat

Pat Marshall, MCSE, MCSA, A+
Systems Administrator
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