Flashing cursor

[a1970man]

Hi all,

After I install fedora and copy the boot.lnx to c: etc I thought I was sorted.

When I select Linux from my dual boot menu, I just get a flashing cursor.

Any ideas / thoughts

Any help greatfully received.

Ta

[linmix]

Not sure exactly what you did. Please explain better. I don't know of any file called boot.lnx
What are you trying to do. What result did you expect?

[a1970man]

Hi,

I was following some instructions (hence probably why I'm having problems)

I was told to boot with the rescue disk after Fedora installed

type dd if=/dev/hdb2 of=boot.lnx bs=512 count=1

and copy the resulting boot.lnx file that is created to the root of C: and add
reference to it in my boot.ini file (c:\boot.lnx="Linux")

If this is incorrect, I'll change anything to get it to work !

[linmix]

so you want to dual boot using the windows bootloader.

After booting with the rescue disk make sure you use chroot /mt/sysimage to get back into the system and not stay on the rescue-cd. Then make sure on which partition /boot is and use this partition name in the command (Where it says if=)

Also, BEFORE doing any of this, you need to install grub to the /boot partition. Otherwise it will not work!