To keep the mbr intact, at the fedora installation, in the bootloader avanced option select to

install the bootloader to the first sector of the / partiton (/boot). when installation complete

you can install from fedora with linux rescue or from windows xp with Wingrub.

 

Put the first cd of linux (fedora) in the boot prompt type:

linux rescue

follow the instructions untill you get the login prompt, to change to your linux system , type:

chroot /mnt/sysimage

open the /mnt directory to open your linux system, now copy the first sector of your /boot

partition to the current directory with:

dd if=/dev/hdax of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1

need to copy the bootsect.lnx to C drive, to mount the C drive, make a directory in

/mnt/windows:

mkdir /mnt/windows

mount the C drive on /mnt/windows:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

if the file system is ntfs change the vfat(fat 32) to ntfs, to copy run the command:

cp -fv bootsect.lnx /mnt/windows

other way is to copy the bootsect.lnx to any removable media like floppy and then to the

C drive.

 

Start windows xp, open the dos, change to the C drive, open the boot.ini in the notepade:

C:\>notepade boot.ini

add this line to the boot.ini:

C:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"

save and exit,this will add the linux to windows xp ntldr.

 

:P johnny06

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