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From: robbio on 8 Aug 2010 18:43 Hi All, I'm new about the Linux world. I have a problem regarding Linux and XP on the same PC. Until today I had on my PC an hard disk with XP and a second empty hard disk where today I installed a debian distribution. Before started the debian setup I switched off the XP hard disk in order to avoid Linux seeing XP hard disk during that installation. The debian installation was successful. After that I tried to modify the boot.ini file in order to start linux from the XP boot loader, to do this I followed some suggestions from the web ( I know was better to see XP from grub but for the moment and for me that was a good choice): that is I used the following command "dd if=/dev/sda1 of=<filename> bs=512 count=1" to create the file to put on C:\<file> and appended a line int the boot.ini file "C:\<file>="Linux"" On the XP boot I was able to see the choice "Linux" from the list but selecting it nothing happened, a black screen. I tried to create the filename using different hard disk with "dd" command, /dev/sda, /dev/sda1 etc without successful ,this because during the installation (if I don't wrong remember) Debian asked me to insert something similar to sda* for the hard disk to use for linux. Any help will be appreciate. Than you Roberto
From: mjt on 8 Aug 2010 19:11 On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:43:22 GMT robbio <codevisio(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I used the following command "dd if=/dev/sda1 of=<filename> > bs=512 count=1" to create the file to put on C:\<file> and appended a > line int the boot.ini file "C:\<file>="Linux"" > On the XP boot I was able to see the choice "Linux" from the list but > selecting it nothing happened, a black screen. Ensure the Debian boot partition is set to "Activated". Ensure Grub was installed to the boot partition's boot sector (i.e. it should not be installed to the hard disks MBR). -- A jury consists of 12 persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost <<< Remove YOURSHOES to email me >>>
From: Hans-Peter Diettrich on 8 Aug 2010 19:11 robbio schrieb: > I'm new about the Linux world. Then I'd suggest to use some easy Linux, that installs without many problems, like Ubuntu. DoDi
From: Marc Haber on 9 Aug 2010 07:12 Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1(a)aol.com> wrote: >robbio schrieb: >> I'm new about the Linux world. > >Then I'd suggest to use some easy Linux, that installs without many >problems, like Ubuntu. He uses Ubuntu's technical supplier. Please name any problems that Debian may cause during its install. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
From: Arno on 9 Aug 2010 07:46
robbio <codevisio(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > I'm new about the Linux world. > I have a problem regarding Linux and XP on the same PC. > Until today I had on my PC an hard disk with XP and a second empty hard > disk where today I installed a debian distribution. > Before started the debian setup I switched off the XP hard disk in order > to avoid Linux seeing XP hard disk during that installation. > The debian installation was successful. After that I tried to modify the > boot.ini file in order to start linux from the XP boot loader, > to do this I followed some suggestions from the web ( I know was better > to see XP from grub but for the moment and for me that was a good choice): > that is I used the following command "dd if=/dev/sda1 of=<filename> > bs=512 count=1" to create the file to put on C:\<file> and appended a line > int the boot.ini file "C:\<file>="Linux"" > On the XP boot I was able to see the choice "Linux" from the list but > selecting it nothing happened, a black screen. > I tried to create the filename using different hard disk with "dd" > command, /dev/sda, /dev/sda1 etc without successful ,this because during > the installation (if I don't wrong remember) > Debian asked me to insert something similar to sda* for the hard disk to > use for linux. > Any help will be appreciate. Install Debian while the XP disk is in the system and use the debian boot loader to boot XP also. Cauaes much fewer problems. Keep an XP recovery disk handy in case of problems. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno(a)wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans |