Need to upgrade dual boot WIN2K

Vaibhav Deshpande vaibhav_d at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 17 01:52:16 UTC 2004


Rick,

Thanks. I do have backup of RH9. I'll be upgrading WIN2K this weekend.

Thanks for your help.

-Vaibhav

--- Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> Vaibhav Deshpande wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've a dual boot system (Win 2K and RH 9). I need to upgrade to WIN
> XP
> > but DON'T want to loose RH9. Basically, XP is for my office work
> and
> > RH9 is for my personal interest.
> > 
> > Is there any safe way of doing this? How much is the risk involved
> (of
> > loosing RH 9)?
> 
> Unless you tell XP to reformat the disk, you won't lose it.  If you
> use
> grub or lilo to do the dual boot for you, you may not be able to boot
> RH9 because XP overwrote the boot loader.
> 
> If that's the case, simply boot off your first RH9 CD and enter
> 
> 	linux rescue
> 
> at the boot prompt.  Let the system find your RH9 installation and
> mount
> it.  Then:
> 
> 	# chroot /mnt/sysimage
> 
> If you use grub, type this command:
> 
> 	# grub-install /dev/hda
> 
> If you use lilo:
> 
> 	# /sbin/lilo
> 
> Then, enter "exit" twice (the first gets you out of the chrooted
> environment, the second reboots the system).  Remove the CD and you
> should get back to your multiboot screen and all should be well.
> 
> Of course, you DO have a current RH9 backup, don't you?  Hmmmm?
>
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