dual boot win2k as boot loader
Hello all I am setting up a dual boot machine for a friend of mine who
wants to give Linux a go, he has to 20 gig hard drives hda being where
win2k resides, and hdb is broken up to two 10 gig partions. hdb1 being
swap hdb3 being / on the first 9gig. The other 10gig is fat32 for
storage space in windows. He does not want to lose the win2k boot
loader just in case he doesn't like linux, that way he can remove linux
with out messing up his MBR on hda. So I installed Debian and told Lilo
to go on hdb3 and to write a MBR to hdb then I boot into it with the
boot floppy and do a dd if=/devhdb of=/tmp/debian.bin bs=512 count=1 and
then I take the .bin file and boot into windows and place it in the c:\
and edit boot.ini accordinly. After that I boot up and select debian
and I get a black screen with MBR=FA3 or something along that lines and
I can't do anything. So I then tried the same dd statement but used
/dev/hdb3 and I get a screen full of 0 and 1's when I try to boot of
that bin. Do I need to make a sepreate boot partition on /dev/hdb for
Debian and then do the dd statment with the boot partion? I want ot
make sure I get it right next time so that he won't give up on Linux.
Thanks all.
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