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Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot



"Abhay Watwe" <abhay@cox.net> writes:

> Harshwardhan/All:
> 
> I made a mistake in my original message.  I used the following command to
> make linux.bin
> dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/linux.bin bs=512 count=1
> 
> So I did use the right partition in the command.  I still get the same
> error.
> 
> Abhay

I used the command (modified to your setup):

        dd if=/dev/hdb1 bs=512 count=1 of=/boot/bootsec.lin

on my Debian Woody, copied the file bootsec.lin to C:\ and added
the following line to BOOT.INI for WinXP 
        C:\bootsec.lin="LILO"
and all works.
-- 
Horst Penschuck
h.pensch@web.de



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