[Nottingham] Install boot loader on hba - help

[Scott Bennett]

i wrote a little tutorial on this after i worked out how to do it, i 
don't know anything bout NTFS windaz partitions, i've got Fat32, but if 
you want to just boot to nix from your NT/2K/XP bootloader, its pretty 
straight forward, http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rengalan/multiboot.html

Iain Alexander wrote:

>Hi I wonder if anyone could offer me a bit of help get my boot loader to
>work correctly
>
>I have just upgraded my dual boot machine to include two hard drives:
>My new Primary master is used mostly for work and windoze stuff but my
>(old) primary slave has my old linux partition on it (it was used as the
>primary master until I upgraded).
>
>With my bios I can manually ask it to boot from a selection of devices
>at startup, and at the moment I don't want to overwrite my primary drive
>master boot record. Luckily my bios lets me manually request a boot
>device at startup so I'd like it to boot from the slave drive (hdb1 I
>believe)
>
>In the upgrade process I decided to nuke my old linux installation and
>install a fresh but it the installer wasn't able to install to the boot
>record on /hdb1. 
>
>
>So I'd like some tips and advice on how to get the boot loader working
>on my primary slave drive so that I can manually boot from that device
>into linux- as I can't boot linux at the moment, I guess I'll have to do
>it from the command line or the boot disk in rescue mode? But I have
>absolutely no idea where to start.
>
>Does this make any sense?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated
>
>Iain
>
>
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