Re: Dual boot with winxp using grub

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Larry Brown wrote:
> does this  work   with NTFS??

NTFS is not a bootable filesystem.  NT/2K/XP must boot through a FAT
(FAT-16 or FAT-32) partition before it can bring NTFS filesystems on-
line.  Granted, the FAT partition can be pretty small, but it must
boot FAT, then as windows comes up, the NTFS drivers load.

This is the same reason you can't boot a compressed drive--you need a
compressed filesystem driver.

>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Ben Segbawu <mailto:bsegbawu Solucient com>
>     *To:* 'redhat-install-list redhat com'
>     <mailto:'redhat-install-list redhat com'>
>     *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2002 3:31 PM
>     *Subject:* RE: Dual boot with winxp using grub
>
>     Actaully I found a way to do it I used grub
>
>     Do sfdisk -l to find out what partitions you have on your system. If
>     you have  fat patition that xp uses for mbr then
>
>     You can vi /etc/grub.conf
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>     Using the same format use
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>      
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>      *title** Windows XP*
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>                 * rootnoverify (hdx,y)*    where x,y is drive, partition
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>                 * chainloder +1*
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>      
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>      
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>     when the bootloader comes up you can select what the os you want
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>      
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>      
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>      
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>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* little [mailto:little_hut softhome net]
>     *Sent**:* Thursday, September 19, 2002 3:18 PM
>     *To:* redhat-install-list redhat com
>     *Subject:* Re: Dual boot with winxp using grub
>
>      
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>     xp will not recognize linux unless you know some trick to do so
>
>     anyway install lilo by /sbin/lilo
>
>     or make a bootable linux floppy
>
>         ----- Original Message -----
>
>         *From:* Ben Segbawu <mailto:bsegbawu Solucient com>
>
>         *To:* 'redhat-install-list redhat com'
>         <mailto:'redhat-install-list redhat com'>
>
>         *Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2002 7:07 PM
>
>         *Subject:* Dual boot with winxp using grub
>
>          
>
>         Hi All,
>         I just installed both win xp and red hat 7.3 using grub
>         But the system boots into just xp.
>         I can use the cd to go into Linux rescue mode but how do I get
>         the xp boot loader to recognize grub or do I have to install lilo.
>
>         Thanks in Advance


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