Booting Linux in Window XP
You can boot Linux from BOOT.INI with a little trickery. The first step is to install a Linux bootloader, such as GRUB or LILO, onto your Linux partition. So, supposing your Linux root partition is /dev/hda6, you'd set up the GRUB bootloader with these commands:
# grub
GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hd0, <TAB>
Possible partitions are:
Partition num: 0, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
Partition num: 2, Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc
Partition num: 4, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82
Partition num: 5, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> root (hd0,5)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd0,5)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,5)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,5)"... failed (this is not fatal)
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,5) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu
.lst "... succeeded
Done.
grub> quit
TIP
Note that GRUB uses a different numbering scheme than the rest of Linux. Linux numbers partitions starting at 1, but GRUB starts at 0. So /dev/hda6 is (hd0,5) in GRUB.
After you set up the bootloader, you need to grab it and save it into a file with the dd command:
# dd if=/dev/hda6 of=grub.bin bs=512 count=1
Now you need to copy grub.bin over to the root of your boot partition, typically the Windows C: drive. If your Windows C: drive is formatted as NTFS, you probably won't be able to write grub.bin to it from Linux, so you'll need to use a FAT-32 partition, a floppy disk, a directory on another computer, or some other means to transfer it over.
Boot back into Windows, edit your BOOT.INI as directed earlier in this hack, and add the following line to the [operating systems] section:
c:\grub.bin="Linux"
If you reinstall your Linux boot loader, you'll need to use dd to extract the boot loader and copy it to your C: drive again. The advantage of using GRUB instead of LILO is that GRUB does not need to be reinstalled each time you install a new kernel (simply edit the GRUB configuration file, usually /boot/grub/menu.lst).
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