Comments on: Starting Linux through Windows XP boot list (boot.ini)

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:48:21 +0000

Andre, thanks a lot for your post – very useful.
I think you should submit it to the ubuntu wiki.

Your solution is way better than booting GRUB, then NTLDR or vice versa.
For some people NTLDR menu could be a better option than GRUB.

By: Andre Noel

Andre Noel — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:35:22 +0000

Thanks Nandan.

By: Nandan V

Nandan V — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:01:16 +0000

replace “size” in the dd command with “bs”

So it should be:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/name_of_device of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1

UbuntuForums.org helped as usual

By: nigel

nigel — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:29:25 +0000

Andre,
thanks for this – sounds useful – will give it a try

By: LT

LT — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:15:35 +0000

Another lesser known option is to use grub4dos/wingrub http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub4dos/

basically all it does is install grub on your C:\ drive and then NTLDR (windows bootloader) will just boot into wingrub and then into my local grub. You can take that step out (booting 1 grub instead of twice), but I’m too lazy to do it.

I personally didn’t have any luck last time I tried using the “dd” command.

My boot.ini:
C:\grldr=”Start Linux Bootloader”