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Mounting Existing Linux Partitions
Im farily new to linux and have just installed fedora to my machine.
I wanted to use the nt boot loader instead of grub, so installed it to the /boot partition instead of the mbr.
The problem is FC2 doesn't allow you to create a boot disk, and as such i cannot boot my linux partition.
I've been told that its possible to mount existing linux partitions in knoppix, then I can use dd to extract the boot sector to be able to add it to my nt bootloader.
I understand how to extract the boot sector, but not how to mount and use my existing partitions.
Can any1 help me with this.
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Mounting is easy, and "mount /mnt/hdXn" run as root under knoppix should work (with appropriate values for the disk X and partition n). knoppix should have detected existing FS and added entries for them in your /etc/fstab. Otherwise you can simply create you own mount point (eg "mount /dev/hdXn /tmp/myboot")
But you don't actually need to mount a partition to get its boot sector, "dd </dev/hdXn >/tmp/hdXn.bs count=1" will do
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![Quote](images/misc/quote_icon.png)
Originally Posted by
lilpaul
The problem is FC2 doesn't allow you to create a boot disk, and as such i cannot boot my linux partition.
(It doesn't? OIC, kernel 2.6 is too big to fit on a floppy.)
There's a generic GRUB boot floppy image you can modify to suit your needs on the Knoppix mirrors as well, in the /contrib directory. You just have to edit "menu.lst" to suit your needs.
ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/knoppix/contrib/grubboot.zip
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