Re: Unable to boot windows XP after installing RH8

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:53:50AM +0000, chris bates wrote:
> Please help a poor sod!
> 
> I was very clever when I installed Linux 8, I thought I was creating a dual 
> boot system but then did not select the advanced boot option to configure 
> the Boot loader to start at the beginning of this disk enabling me to boot 
> either XP or RH.
> 
> I did however install RH on the second disk Hdb, XP is or used to be on Hda.
> 
> Is there a way to reconfigure the Boot loader to boot XP after the install

Yes.

> or have I lost XP forever?

No.

> Hopefull,
> Chris

Start with a perusal of Appendix G of The Fine Manual

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/

If nothing there helps you, post your /boot/grub/grub.conf and the
output of

  fdisk -l # That's an "ell" as in list.
  df

and we can probably get you going.

Cheers,
-- 
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