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| Author | Subject: Using boot.ini to Load Linux |
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 Posted on 10-20-2004 10:05 a.m. ET  Original Poster: Corvus Elrod This question came up at the last meeting and a lot of good advice was given. However, this seems to be a cleaner (i.e. no third party tools) method of achieving the goal of having the NT Boot Loader fire off a Linux partition. Run the following command under Linux to copy the first sector of your Linux partition to a file of your choosing: dd if=/dev/hdxy of=/path/and/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 (with x=device-number and y=partition-number where your boot-loader resides...) Drop the resulting file (this example uses linux.bin) into the root of your Windows partition. Add the following line to boot.ini: c:linux.bin="Linux" /fastdetect ...and Voila! boot your Linux partition from the Windows boot loader. |
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