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Old 13th May 2005, 01:31 AM
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dual boot with windowsXP

Hi,
I have fedora installed on a stand alone hdd on one computer. Then i use that hardisk to another computer which already has windows XP. Now i dont know how to boot to linux be cause windows xp use it own boot manager(winXP drive is set as master). I have tried to install grub from recue disk but when the command
grub-install /dev/hda
causes error: /dev/hda doesn not have coressponding BIOS device
Please help
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Old 13th May 2005, 02:17 AM
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do:
dd if=/dev/hdbx of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 (x is your fedora /boot partiton)
copy bootsect.lnx with a floppy to your windows C drive, in dos do:
C:\>notepade boot.ini
add this line to boot.ini:
C:\bootsect.lnx=" FedoraLinux"
and reboot now chose the fedora from your xp bootloader.
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