boot | Txt

20 Jun

Backup and Restore Boot sector

Use these commands to backup/restore your boot sector


dd if=/dev/hda of=bootsector.img bs=512 count=1 # backup
dd if=bootsector.img of=/dev/hda #restore

09 Mar

Create a boot floppy – if you still have a floppy drive?


mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 `uname -r`

15 Aug

The code to add a Windows loading section in Grub


title Windows
        rootnoverify (hd0,1)
        chainloader +1

[tags]grub,windows,linux,boot,loader[/tags]

29 May

Note: This post may be wrong. I’m getting a lot of complaints that this doesn’t work. See the Microsoft page on how to do this here

Disabling startup login prompt for password

Click Start and Run
Type “Control Userpasswords2” and press enter.
Uncheck the box for “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.”
Click Apply and Ok.

Please read the comments before following these steps – some comments have reported that this fix is causing a few issues.