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Originally posted by Nefarious OK....... This is what i get
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 7990 cylinders
Units = cylinder of 15120 * 512 Bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 5908 44664448+ 1c Hidden Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 * 5909 5922 105840 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 5923 7906 140999040 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 7907 7907 257040 f Win95 ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 7907 7907 257008+ 82 Linux Swap
Your XP partition is hidden. I don't remember if fdisk can change the hidden flag. Once this is accomplished all you would need to do is add XP to the bootloader.
hda4 is an extended partition not a logical drive. The logical drive is a linux swap partition. So windows only has a c: drive.
That should have been done during the install. You *could* go back now and re-do that portion of the install. Anyway, I am trying to see if there will be an ultra easy way for you to do this...
So more than likely you've got GRUB as your bootloader.. as we suspected.
You might wanna go back to this point of the install and change that to lilo, this will help to get that lilo.conf setup for your system a little better, and then to setup the winbloze part will be a bit easier.
# make sure you have lines like these two, if there is no default it will boot in the list order, but you need timeout
default=0
timeout=10
# the following may differ on yours, don't change it
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hda2
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img
#this is what you need to add to your /etc/grub.conf
title WinXP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
unhide (hd0,0)
that should fix it
Last edited by DavidPhillips; 11-24-2002 at 06:48 PM.
dave do u have aim that you can walk me through on this ? If you do im me at DaXtreme690 im on right now... it would be alot easier and quicker... Thanks.
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