Quote Originally Posted by hukdonfonix
well i was thining about that and i found a tutorial to use lilo with windows and knoppix, but it required a floppy disk. no floppy drive on my laptop. if you could explain how, then i might consider it. i didnt want to get rid of ntldr because why fool with it if it works. but i might have to.
GRUB/LILO or my win32 patch are all the same. Basically what most XP users want is to continue using the NT loader(why change when it works?). So after you install linux to a seperate partition on the same HD, LILO/GRUB should give you a choice to install to either MBR(sector 0 of the HD) or BR of the partition(sector 0 of the partition). Just tell it to install to the boot sector of the partition rather than MBR. Then issue the following command under linux :

dd if=/dev/hda6 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1

assuming /dev/hda6 is your linux partition where lilo/grub put its boot sector.

Now you need to find a way to copy bootsect.lnx to c:\(of windows). If it is FAT, just mount and copy then modify just as the above, otherwise for NTFS, you need to find a place to hold it as normally linux cannot write to NTFS, captive driver may be(can be a floppy or USB stick or even email/upload/ftp the file to somewhere else like yahoo). Then change this line :

4. add 'c:\boot\stage1="GRUB"' to c:\boot.ini

to c:\bootsect.lnx="LINUX/GRUB/LILO or whatever you want to call it"