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lawadm1 07-23-2003 07:57 AM

XP/Grub Boot
 
I'm dual booting Win XP and Red Hat 9 and I've modified the boot.ini file to add Red Hat 9 to the selection list.

The problem is, when I select Red Hat 9, I get "GRUB" and it hangs there and does nothing.

I've set this up successfully on a machine dual booting W2K and Red Hat 9. The only difference is that I used LILO on the W2K machine.

Any suggestions would be appreciated,

-J

lawadm1 07-23-2003 08:01 AM

I also need to add that I did create the linux_bs.bin file using "dd", and did place that in C: in XP

In boot.ini I added C:\linux_bs.bin="Red Hat 9"

ponkanMonster 08-09-2003 08:48 PM

hey bro!

i think you better use the lilo or grub that linux provides for the very reason that they are the bootloaders that can load multiple OSes without being file-system-sensitive.

i hope this one helps. by the way XP is nasty coz of the ntfs. M*@#$% wants their OS to be the only on a PC.

this is the very first time i've encountered a problem like yours of all the time i'm searching almost all linux forums.

CFink 09-01-2003 06:18 PM

XP/Grub boot
 
Did you ever get this working? I have the same problem. I can boot into Linux (on the 2nd HD) only if I go into the BIOS and switch the boot order of my drives, and even then I have to modify the Grub.conf file to reverse the HD identifiers there as well.

Thanks,

Chris
cfphd@earthlink.net

ponkanMonster 09-02-2003 07:48 AM

well,i am very sad to inform you, my dear friend that i was only to modify the grub.conf file so as to let grub find my winXP. i have had no problem with my machine on the dual boot. why not try to reinstall WinXP first then linux. but remember change only the grub for your bootloader and not all of the bootloaders.....
sorry, i hope this helps

f_r_c 09-27-2003 03:35 PM

I'm working fine with XP/w2k/Redhat9

I have 3 partitions in a same HD.
First installed WinXP, after Windows 2k, at last Redhat 9.

Win2k configures both partitions (WinXP y Win2k) in order to boot between those OS's.
File configured when you install those OS's is c:\boot.ini (in first partition)

Installing Redhat9 in third partition you can configure /etc/grub.conf in order to boot Linux and Windows OS's.

When you turned on the machine, first executed is Linux Grub, asking for the system which you want to start. If you choose Windows OS, next screen is the menu of boot.ini asking for the Windows system that you want to start (in my case Win2k and WinXP).

I hope this help you.


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