Dual Boot Grub Question (boot cd problem)

[Till]

On 29/09/05 00:16 Till Wrote:

> On 28/09/05 23:42 Richard Querin Wrote:
> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Richard Querin <rfquerin at gmail.com>
>> Date: Sep 28, 2005 9:42 AM
>> Subject: Re: Dual Boot Grub Question (boot cd problem)
>> To: Till <tillm at optushome.com.au>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 9/28/05, Till <tillm at optushome.com.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Are you just trying to dual boot Ubuntu with XP, or do you
>>> have more complicated needs?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Till
>>>
>> 
>> I am trying to dual boot with XP. I've tried the standard way (both writing
>> grub to the MBR and putting it into it's own /boot partition) and it isn't
>> working. The boot cd solution seems like my last hope.
>> 
>> Currently, if I use the ubuntu installer (the partitioner) to make the /boot
>> partition bootable, then the grub menu works however windows will not launch
>> (NTLDR missing message) but ubuntu will launch. The only way I can make XP
>> boot it seems is to keep the NTFS partition bootable but then it boots
>> straight to XP bypassing grub entirely.
>> 
>> The original attempt which overwrote the MBR did not work. Creating the
>> /boot paritition seems like the most successful try so far, if I could only
>> solve the NTLDR missing problem. I've messed around with menu.lst file to no
>> avail.
> 
> I never did like putting grub into the MBR, have to re-install
> grub everytime you need to re-install winblows :(
> 
> Anyway, the best way to do it in hoary is to make a boot
> floppy during install - so when you get to the point where it
> asks where to install grub, you put it on a floppy.  Now
> here's the catch, if you type /dev/fd0, you'll most probably
> get an error, this seems to be an Ubuntu problem because I
> never had that problem with other distros.  the way to do it
> is type (fd0) and it will put your boot image on floppy - oh
> make sure you have a clean floppy in the drive before typing
> the command!
> 
> Now once Ubuntu has finished installing and has rebooted from
> the floppy you made, got to a terminal and as root or sudo type:
> 
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/home/YourloginName/LINUX.LNX bs=512 count=1
> 
> Make sure your boot floppy is in the drive!
> 
> Now copy the file created in your home directory to the floppy
> and reboot into windows.  Copy the linux.lnx file from the
> floppy to your C Drive.  Edit your boot.ini and add to the end
> of it
> C:\LINUX.LNX="Ubuntu Linux"
> 
> When you boot up again, you should get the option to boot
> windows or Ubuntu, select ubuntu and away we go :)
> 
> Oh remember to remove the floppy :)
> 

Oh that should have been for Breezy as well as hoary :(

-- 
Till