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Sounds complicated
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I cfdisked using a linux boot cd, installed XP then i installed linux letting it control the mbr.
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then i edited lilo.conf
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other = /dev/hda?
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label=xp
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alias=3
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run lilo and thats it
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if i want to blow away linux its easy. use a win98 boot disk type fdisk /mbr
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reboot and use disk manager in Xp to repartition the ext2 dir.
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or blow away windows by using cfdisk in linux.
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My test machine is Win98, linux and XP. I used cfdisk to make 4 partitions. Installed win98 first then XP so i had dual boot XP and Win98. I installed linux last because Linux isn't the jealous type and lets other OS's co-exist. Then i used the above lilo.conf.
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Now when i boot i get a menu of 1 for linux, 3 for windows. When i choose windows i get a choice of xp and win98.
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On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 17:35, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Hi Brad , </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I don't know if this will help you but , I have the following config (</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>dual boot XP Pro and RH 7.1 )</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Disk 0 C: 20 GIG NTFS - ( 20 Gig Seagate</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Baracudda )</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Disk 1 125 MB /boot 3.91 GIG / | 1.72 GIG FAT 32 - ( 6.4 Gig Quantum</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Fireball )</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Steps </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>1. Install XP First </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>2. Drop Linux CD in and boot from CD</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>3. Partition it using Disk Druid</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>4. Create Boot Disk</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>5. Install LILO NOT into the MBR but into the boot partition</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>6. Finish Install</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>7. Boot With Rescue Disk into Linux</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>8. Use dd to find the label for /boot eg: /dev/hdb1 or something along</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>those lines.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>9. Now type </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> dd if=/dev/<ref step 9> of=/bootsec.bin bs=512 count=1</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> This will dumb the first sector into a file which we will use for XP</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>to boot linux later.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>10. Now mount a FAT formatted floppy</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>11. cp /bootsec.bin /mnt/floppy</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>12. Shutdown and reboot into XP , remove floppy</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>13. Copy bootsec.bin from the floppy and dump it into C:\</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>14. edit boot.ini and add a line to the bottom section.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> C:\bootsec.bin="Red Hat 7.1 (Seawolf)"</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> save and reboot.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Now XP Boot Menu should give you 2 choices , and if you choose linux it</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>will give you the choices in lilo</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>NOTES:</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>If you change your Kernel/ or update your lilo.conf you will need to</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>update bootsec.bin otherwise it will not work.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Cheers </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Alan</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>-</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Alan Mackenzie</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>wolfman@iinet.net.au</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>~ chmod 666 soul.tar.gz ~</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>-----Original Message-----</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>From: bpalmer@orbeng.com [mailto:bpalmer@orbeng.com] </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Sent: Thursday, 7 March 2002 11:06</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>To: plug@plug.linux.org.au</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Subject: [plug] Dual Boot Linux with XP (NTFS)</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Hi There, </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>This is my first post, but I have been subscribed for a while now. Good</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>list and a good source of information. Thanks ;-)</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I'm a bit of a newbie, but learning everyday.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Running an Athlon 1100 on a A7V, the two std ide channels have been</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>disabled and everything runs on ATA100 on a 30gig drv. XP was put onto</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>the primary partition, then Linux on the second. </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Used Grub, and on the first reboot XP was not available, but during the</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>install it had XP as an option but Linux set as default.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I have spent a day or so now searching the www for a few clues, and have</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>looked at the grub.conf file. </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Most of the info I have obtained tells me to mod this file which I have</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>tried, but so far no luck.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Also it seems quite a few people revert to fat32 out of frustration when</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>trying to get ntfs support in RH7.1 & 7.2.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Any ideas are greatly appreciated.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Regards, </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Brad</FONT></FONT></I>
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