Dual Booting with Windows Boot Loader

[georgef at atg.com (George Flaherty)]

I got it working....no need to reply.
thanks.
-g

On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 00:04, George Flaherty wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I was wondering if someone could help me figure out what is going on
> with my dual boot of Win Xp and RH 7.2 with implementing the Windows
> Boot Loader.
> 
> I copied the the boot sector of my linux install and placed it on my
> windows partition. The command I used to create this was:
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> 
> Where hda6 was my linux root partition.
> 
> Yet after modifying the windows boot.ini and launching the boot manager,
> I did not get any response.
> 
> So I then tried to copy the boot sector from my boot "floppy" disk via
> 
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> 
> Still nothing? Which I thought was strange since the boot "floppy" disk
> does work and boot up Linux?
> 
> I guess I must be missing something? Any ideas?
> thanks
> -g
>  
>