Re: Another thing... Boot Sector

["junkyard boyoy" <clan_bd2@example.com>]

I think I found out my problem.  I didn't install lilo AT ALL.  Silly thing 
I did.....  Thanks for putting me on the right track though!  I couldn't 
have gotten to that conclusion without your help!

>From: "SN_Diamond" <Norman.Diamond@example.com>
>Reply-To: tlug@example.com
>To: "TLUG mailing list" <tlug@example.com>
>Subject: Re: Another thing...  Boot Sector
>Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:27:20 +0900
>
> > Is it possible to extract a linux partition's boot sector?  My linux
> > resides on /dev/hdb2, but whenever I try to extract the boot
> > sector (to allow NT Loader to boot the partition), I seem to get
> > no output.
> > dd if=/dev/hdb2 bs=512 count=1 of=bootsect.lin
>
>That command should report 1+0 records in and 1+0 records out, and it 
>should
>copy the boot sector to your file bootsect.lin.
>
>The fact that your linux system resides on /dev/hdb2 isn't quite relevant
>here.  The question is where you told lilo to install the lilo boot sector.
>Obviously you (correctly for your purposes) remembered not to let it 
>install
>lilo in the MBR of /dev/hda.  We still don't have evidence of whether you
>correctly told it /dev/hdb2, and whether the lilo command obeyed your
>request.  If it didn't get there, then the dd command should still operate
>and produce the same visible output, but the resulting bootsect.lin file
>won't contain what you need.
>
>Of course, next you need to copy bootsect.lin to /c (or wherever you mount
>your Windows-style C: drive, i.e. the NT system partition).
>
>(By the way, in case the above wording looks strange, it is.  Microsoft 
>uses
>the words "system partition" for the partition that gets booted and
>Microsoft uses the words "boot partition" for the partition where the NT
>system files are installed.)
>
>Hmm.  Since you already ran the dd command, you had Linux running, but you
>didn't get there from the NT booter.  So you booted from a Linux rescue
>floppy?
>
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