Re: How to boot to Linux when MBR points to Win partition?
From: David (thunderbolt01_at_netscape.net)
Date: 11/27/03
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:20:39 GMT
Zalek Bloom wrote:
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> I copied an old HD with Linux RH8.0 and Win98 to a bigger disk. On my
> all HD Linux had 3 pimary partitions - one for /boot, one for / and
> one for swap and Win98 had another primary partition. On a new disk I
> made one extended partition for Linux - with 3 logical partitions. I
> had problem with booting, so I put in MBR original boot record by
> issuing command: FDISK /MBR. I have Partition Magic 5.0 on my Win98
> partition, so I thought with help of this software I could correct
> Lilo problem. Now I can boot Win, PM is seeing Linux partitions, but
> PQ Boot (multi boot part of Partition Magic) cannot boot to Linux (PM
> 5.0 does not recognize ext3, my Linux partitions are ext3)
> My question:
> Is there a way/software to boot to Linux when MBR is pointing to Win
> partition?
Use your linux bootdosk. You did make one didn't you?
If not you can use the first installation CD to boot the system
then make a bootdisk or fix /etc/lilo.conf so you can choose
which OS to boot.
-- Confucius: He who play in root, eventually kill tree. Registered with The Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org/ Slackware 9.1.0 Kernel 2.4.22 SMP i686 (GCC) 3.3.2 Uptime: 3 days, 17:07, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.05
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