extracting Linux SUSE boot Loader

[MiG-]

i log into the linux console, and use su and then my password, it logs me in, and then i try the following: dd if=/dev/hda8 bs=512 count=1 of=/sys/boot.lnx i get an message after a while saying count in : 0 and count out : 10, but there is no file created, and if i try after it says access denied, can anyone help me out ???

[markwolfe Veteran]

It looks like you are going through the steps to manually make an entry in your Windows C:\boot.ini for dual booting XP and Linux. May I ask why you are trying to create a copy of your boot sector in your /sys directory? Seems like you would want to copy it to a floppy/USB device or even a hard drive that was writeable by Linux and readable by Windows...

[MiG-]

im following a tutorial from custom pc, but i just overwrote my master mbr, and i got 9a, instead of a boot screen, so i rewrote the MBR with XP pro disc, and then completely unistalled linux. :angry:

Linux gave me nothing but problems, im jus gonna stick with windows me thinks, plus linux slowed windows down. :o

[markwolfe Veteran]

It sounds like the strange procedure you were trying to follow caused the problems. But that does not matter, as long as you got your PC booting Windows again and useable.

As for the Linux slowing Windows down, there is a 0% chance of that. Linux did not write any delay statements into your Windows binaries. ;) It didn't touch your Windows partitions at all (the MBR is not partition information, and you restored that to the Microsoft default, anyhow).

Sorry your experience went so poorly, regardless.

[CaKeY]

lol

[MiG-]

my computer slowed becasue of all the extra **** on the HDD. lol :D

[raid517]

Then you Sir, know nothing about computers. The only way your PC would slow down in this way is because of all of the crap you have in your Windows install. As has been explained to you, having another OS installed on an entirely seperate partition cannot in any way slow down any other OS you might have installed. And Linux didn't give you 'no end of trouble', you gave yourself no end of trouble, because clearly you didn't and don't have a blind clue what you are doing.

Best regards,

GJ

[markwolfe Veteran]

Relax.

I am pretty sure that MiG:uK realizes that it wasn't Linux now. The "lol :D" is kind of a good indicator...

[raid517]

Well it sounded like he was saying Linux was the 'extra' crap. I simply assumed that this was a perception that needed correction.

GJ