Dual boot with windows

dkb · 05-07-2009, 09:59 PM

Dear Yancek,

I burnt an iso image using InfraRecorder and set the burn speed for x4 and fixate the disc before ejecting. In InfraRecorder in the Actions menu I select Burn Image which pops up a window. I select the to burn "mandrivia-linux........iso". The File type is "Disc Images (*iso, *cue, *img)". It burns without any error message.

I checked the disc with Windows explorer to make sure the file was visible and then placed it into my other XP computer. I booted twice but each time Windows ignored the .iso file.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

Douglas

saikee · 05-09-2009, 02:50 PM

Between Post #8 dated 05-04-09, 10:49 PM and this post I have managed not booting 10 Xp but 126 Xp in the same hard disk.

I did tried booting 10 Xp, after that I tried 54 Xp, then 100 Xp and found 126 Xp is about the limit I want to stop.

Majority of the work like creating partition, cloning the Xp and even booting are done by scripts.

yancek · 05-09-2009, 07:29 PM

I'm not familiar with Infrarecorder but from your post it sounds like you selected the correct option. If you did the md5 checksum it should work. When you put the disk in the drive using windows, are you able to open it and see several folders/files? If you see only one folder, it didn't work. Do you have your computer set in BIOS/setup to have the CD drive as first boot priority? You can usually access BIOS in a Dell by hitting the F2 key while booting.

dkb · 05-09-2009, 11:44 PM

I did manage to boot up with Mandriva.

Thank you.

At the moment I am struggling to partition disc. If I continue to have problems I will post another query.

Thank you.

Douglas

ShaanAli · 05-10-2009, 04:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 686plus

It sounds like you would prefer to boot linux using the Windows boot loader by configuring the .ini file. I'm sure there is a solution, but I don't know how.

You could achieve similar results by making the linux hard drive the primary and use grub to boot both linux and windows.

Here is a a post with a slightly different situation, but the solution here should work.

ok. Thanks. its working now for me. I am able to boot windows from Linux. But from windows, I am not able to boot linux.

ShaanAli · 05-12-2009, 01:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zhjim

Here is a walkthrough.
http://bkpavan.wordpress.com/2008/04...bootloader-xp/

Short summary.
Get Bootloader of Linux OS. (not using mbr)

Code:

dd of=/dev/hda if=/tmp/linux.boot bs=512 count=1

copy linux.boot to your windows harddrive

Add

Code:

c:\linux.boot="My Precious linux"

to c:\boot.ini (do attrib -r -w -s c:\boot.ini to get it writable)

Hi,

Can you help what should be my dd command.....

output of my df command is:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 7.7G 2.5G 4.8G 35% /
/dev/hda6 8.1G 4.0G 4.1G 50% /home
/dev/hdd1 29G 23G 6.0G 80% /media/hd
/dev/hdd2 47G 5.5G 41G 12% /media/hd2

Boot partition is mounted on root folder /boot/grub

if i try with "dd of=/dev/hda1 if=/tmp/linux.boot bs=512 count=1" windows not booting.

fdisk command output is:

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x68442611

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1019 8185086 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1020 2434 11365987+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1020 1369 2811343+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 1370 2434 8554581 83 Linux

any pointer?