More dual-booting fun than you can shake two HOWTOs at

Alphax alphasigmax at gmail.com
Sun Oct 15 06:35:55 CST 2006


n0dalus wrote:
> On 10/15/06, Alphax <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hrm, I think I did something wrong. NTLDR says something about a missing
>> Windows system file if I try and load the linux.boot file... maybe I
>> installed GRUB in the wrong place...
>>
> 
> One way to check is if the linux.boot file contains the text 'GRUB'
> somewhere in the binary data (it should). It's also possible that you
> misspelled something in the boot.ini or put quotes in the wrong spot
> or something.
> 

linux.boot has GRUB in it. In fact it looks very similar (though not
identical) to /boot/grub/stage1 on the ext3 partition.

boot.ini has:

C:\linux.boot="Linux - SUSE 10.1"

at the end - I'm wondering if the -, . could be messing with it. I'll
reboot and try again...

-- 
                Alphax
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