Dear Janusz,
Yes from the LiveCD if you do hd it will boot from the hard disk. Similarly hd1 or hd2 if you have two hard disks.
I am glad it worked out OK in the end. I attach a file with all of the booting options. Don't know why they call it cheat codes since it is not cheating.
If you can negotiate your way around it is possible to boot sda2 from the cd using grub. I'll will try to work out the recipe for you to try. you have to get to a grub commandline (so a grub boot floppy would do it) and then do
grub>configfile (hd0,1)/boot/menu.lst
(hd0,1) is grub talk for sda2. This will bring up the grub menu and you just press enter to boot grml.
There is a good method to make a copy of your XP partition with ntfsclone. You need a back up medium such as a usb hard drive to save the disk image on. It compresses all empty space. It is better than partimage but you still need to back up the mbr separately with a dd command.
Thank you Moss
PS Try moving the timeout command to the top of boot.ini You should then have 30 seconds to see the choice of what to boot grml or XP. Perhaps it needs to be longer.
---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [Grml] How to install GRML to one harddrive with Windows XP installed on this harddrive? From: "Mgr. Janusz Chmiel" chmiel@phil.muni.cz Date: Sat, January 3, 2009 5:40 pm To: "Maurice McCarthy" moss@mythic-beasts.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear syr,
Do not be sad, i have installed GRML successfully, but unfortunately, ntldr can not boot to this system. I was not able to use the parameters for using parted to create logical partition, i had to create extended partition first, then to create ext2 file system inside this partition, inside logical partition. Copy process during installation has no problems, everythink is stored on Ext2 file system, but because i did not want to corrupt my Windows XP installation, i installed lilo to SDA2. I will try to use external boot manager to try to boot to The grml. But i will probably had to use other linux kernel from Cd to mount Ext2 partition and i will try to use system from this kernel, but it is not probably good idea.
Please, has GRML official live Cd option to boot from hard disk?
I do not have problems with sound cart, i can type grml swspeak, but only from live CD. My sound cart has been automatically detected.
So thank You for Your help. Yours instructions have been very nice tutorial for me, i was able to successfully create partition for GRML and i was also able to copy bootsect.sda3. So i will try to find out, if Ext2 partition is containing readable installation or if i only created non functional havoc. Windows XP is intouched and can be normally used without crashes.
So thank You again for Your detailed instructions about parted.