RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.

["Otto Haliburton" <ottohaliburton comcast net>]

Good info!!!!!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-admin redhat com [mailto:redhat-list-admin redhat com]
> On Behalf Of Edward Croft
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:48 PM
> To: Red Hat List
> Subject: RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:37, Otto Haliburton wrote:
> > You are saying here that if it was the C:\ drive(confusing).  I think
> that
> > win98, winME etc. aren't able to configure with any drive letter other
> than
> > c, but winNT and win2k can.  I don't know that winXP can so I hope that
> what
> > you are saying is true.
> >
> Let me clarify. When I first had this box, it was a Win98 box that was
> upgraded to a Win2k box. When I decided that I wanted Linux on the
> system, rather than try to fiddle more room out of the current drive, I
> used a spare hard drive I had. I installed that as the primary and the
> Windows drive as the slave. Then in grub.conf, I used the map command so
> that Windows would still think it was the C: drive. Another option was
> to edit the c:\boot.ini file on Win2k and make changes to the drive and
> partition info, but this was much easier. I also had set aside a small
> partition on the slave for FAT. This way, I can mount the FAT drive from
> either the Linux side or the Win2k side. This allows for moving files
> between the systems since Linux can't write to an NTFS mounted
> filesystem. (Supposedly, you can make changes in the kernel to allow for
> NTFS mounts read-only, but why bother if you can't write.)
> 
> My second system was a little easier as it was a fresh system that I
> built. I bought a large hard drive and split the drive between the
> systems and installed XP first. Since they are both on the same drive,
> no issues with the mapping.
> 
> Just a little helpful hint, from your Uncle Ed!
> 
> 
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