[NTLUG:Discuss] Boot Loader

[terry]

George Lass wrote:

>terry wrote:
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>>George Lass wrote:
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>>>I have just installed a RedHat 9 system on a second
>>>drive in my Dell Dimension 4550 Desk Top PC.  The
>>>PC shipped with Windoze XP loaded on the first
>>>hard drive.  Not wanting to take any chances, I
>>>didn't install a boot loader. Rather, I created
>>>a boot floppy.  Is it possible to go back and
>>>install a boot loader for both O/S's at a later
>>>time on the first hard drive?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>George
>>>
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>>So, did you ever get it going your way?   ...Or not?
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>I did eventually get things working while still
>maintaining the NT boot loader.  I actually wound
>up having to "dd" the first 512 bytes of a floppy
>based grub onto the windows file linux.bin
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>I also tried: grub --install, but I must have 
>a different version of grub than what you are used
>to (I have GNU GRUB 0.93), for when I type 
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>grub --install
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>I get
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>grub: option '--install' requires an argument
>Try``grub --help'' for more information.
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>grub --help yields the following
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>--install-partition=PAR specify stage2 install_partition
>[default=0x20000]
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It appears that the latest version requires you to specify the drive.  
ie.
grub -install /dev/hda

 From info grub:
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".....You only need to specify one
argument to the program, namely, where to install GRUB. The argument
can be either of a device file or a GRUB's drive/partition. So, this
will install GRUB into the MBR of the first IDE disk under Linux:

     # grub-install /dev/hda
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The previous versions, (as I said before), would default to /dev/hda if 
no specification was provided.  I guess they decided that wasn't such a 
good idea for some reason or other.  Oh well...
Sorry for the confusion.

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Registered Linux User #188099
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