Dual Boot Mageia 5 using Win XP Bootloader

[vssekhar]

Hi,

I used the following commands for dual booting Mageia 5 from Win XP bootloader

grub2-mkimage --output=./core.img --format=i386-pc --prefix="(hd1,msdos5)/boot/grub2" biosdisk part_msdos ext2 ( can boot from supergrub2disk)

cat /boot/grub2/i386-pc/boot.img ./core.img > g2ldr ( There is no /boot/grub2/i386-pc/lnxboot.img, so I used boot.img )

grubinst -o -b=g2ldr g2ldr.mbr (Copy g2ldr to windows and then this command)

Add the following line to boot.ini
C:\g2ldr.mbr="Mageia 5"

This does not work. Please help.

Sekhar

[kc1di]

have you had a look at the dual boot wiki page?
found here: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installation_of_Mageia_in_dual_boot_with_Windows

[vssekhar]

Not much information here. This topic describes the dual boot using the GRUB2. I want using the Win XP NT bootloader ( boot.ini) The above sequence of commands had worked for me with Mageia 4.1 but with mageia 5 not working.