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  • From: "Ian" <info AT freedomnet.org.uk>
  • To: sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL booted with grub4dos on drive with bad boot sector
  • Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:54:11 -0000

> This computer came with Win2k in hda1 where I left it. I shrank it and
> made a small hda2 with DOS (which is physically the first partition --
> ???) but grub4dos installed to hda1 which is a pain since I have to boot
> to win2k to edit it. Make sure to install grub4dos to a non-ntfs
> partition.
>
> To boot Win2K I need to choose Advanced Menu.
> XP in similar setups boots as Windows. Odd.

I expect if you had changed your active partition from hda1 to hda2, grub4dos
would have
installed in hda2. I'm using gparted for changing the active partition but it
might be OK to
use Fdisk.

Ian.






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