Re: Dual Boot

["Simon's" <simoncourtney btopenworld com>]

Thanks Nigel I have now entered this into the file. I have rebooted and the
option of "Windows" now appears, however, when selected the screen goes
black and then goes back to GRUB screen, i.e. it does nothing!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Wade" <nmw ion le ac uk>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: Dual Boot


> Simon's wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having trouble with dual booting with Win98 and Redhat Linux 7.3.
The default boot loader GRUB does not seem to be picking up the Win98
partition. I have re-installed Linux but this does not seem to help.
> >
> > I am a complet novice when it comes to Linux so PLEASE HELP!!
> >
> > Rgds
> >
> > Simon
> >
>
> I'ts not clear from your message where the problem lies.
>
> Is that there is no option to boot Windows in the grub menu, or when you
> select the Windows option it doesn't boot Windows correctly?
>
> If it's the former that may be very easy to solve. Boot into Linux and
> open the file /boot/grub/grub.conf in a text editor. You can use any
> text editor you have installed.
>
> Add the following text to the end of the file:
>
> title Windows
>      rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>      makeactive
>      chainloader +1
>
> This assumes that Windows is installed on the first primary partition of
> the master drive on the first IDE channel (which is the normal place for
> Win9x).
>
> Also, make sure that, in the same file, the value after timeout= is not
> 0. It should be a number > 0 (it's the number of seconds you get to
> choose which OS to boot).
>
> If the problem is that Windows doesn't boot, we need more information.
>
>
> --
> Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
>              University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
> E-mail :    nmw ion le ac uk
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