Dual Boot In Linux and WInxp

reply2vinay · 07-20-2005, 02:42 PM

Hai Iam Vinay,
I Installed Winxp In One 40gb Hard disk.After Installtion i connected this harddisk to Primary Slave.After that i am taken another 40gb hard disk and connected into Primary Master...
I Started Installtion Fedora Core1 In Primary Master Hard disk.
Installtion Is Completed.After rebooting the system in startup Fedora and
Dos is there.When i Click Fedora It is Booting and i Can Mount the partitions (FAT)of winxp.But When I Go to DOS Menu In Startup
just Chainloader +1 is Coming BUT Winxp Is not booting and Continues beep is coming....

HOW Can i Boot With Winxp?
How Can i MOunt NTFS partitions of Winxp?

My System Configuration:

Intel Celeron2.4GHz
INtel Desktop Boards (845GVSR)
128MB RAM

PLease tell me ASAP...

aysiu · 07-20-2005, 03:02 PM

Perhaps Windows wants to be the master, not the slave.
I'm not joking. That may actually be the problem.
Also, I'm confused--you installed these OSes on hard drives, then connected those hard drives? Huh?
Now that they're connected, how about reinstalling Windows on master, then installing Fedora on the slave.
Make sure it install Grub on the MBR.

reply2vinay · 07-20-2005, 07:14 PM

1st Hard disk i Connected into Primary Slave and Installed Winxp Then i Connected 2nd Hard disk into
master and Installed Fedora LInux......

cerealdaemon · 07-21-2005, 01:22 AM

generally it's been my experience that XP and Fedora don't like to coexist on the same machine.

But when I did have XP and fedora on the same computer, I had of course different hard drive and I had the XP drive jumpered as master with the GAG Bootloader installed in the MBR section of the machine. I had then Fedora installed on the slave drive. Simply choose which OS you want to boot when GAG loads and you shold be good to go.

As far as using GRUB or LILO, I've not had any experience with LILO and I've found the GAG has far fewer issues when dealing with the MBR on a windows volume and GRUB does.

Hope that helps a little bit.

syg00 · 07-21-2005, 02:00 AM

Search for "grub and map".

IMFire3605 · 07-21-2005, 10:58 AM

Well the problem you are facing is "Gate's Braindead Bas$%^&$ Child" wants to think its superior and the only OS out there, and it is in the NTLDR that you are running into. Either reinstall XP with the hard drives the way they are to reset the NTLDR system to notice it is on the second disk not the first or you need to make the XP drive the first drive (Master) instead of the slave, this of course will mess up where your boot loader is installed. Next, you have to install the boot loader onto the Master's master boot record, personally to do that I would do the get the KNOPPIX Live Linux CD, mount my linux partions like they would be mounted normally under KNOPPIX /mnt directory, mount -t auto -o rw /dev/hdb1 /mnt/oldlinux;mount -t auto -o rw /dev/hdb2 /mnt/oldlinux/boot editing /mnt/oldlinux/etc/lilo.conf.anaconda and save it /mnt/oldlinux/etc/lilo.conf then chroot /mnt/oldlinux and type lilo after that, then CTRL+D and reboot. Otherwise you're reinstalling linux again just to boot it.

Lilo has worked great for me ever since I got into using linux all these years, and stick with it being it handles booting both winblows and linux nicely with no problems unless your tweeking around where you shouldn't if you don't have the experience.

I run Fedora 3 and XP side by side and have had no problem with XP first disk and Fedora Second disk.

NTFS under linux, is not really that hard, configure the kernel source to add NTFS read-only support or being this is a RedHat system, do a google search on linux NTFS and download the NTFS module in .rpm format and install it which is what I did from the NTFS projects website.

But hey, here's a bonus, 2000/2003/XP can also read-only a linux partition, and I use ext2ifs-0.3 NTFS driver system to do this which is loaded as a service under NT5.x systems.

Now you can copy files between the two, not actually write to the other's partition, otherwise if you are wanting write access on a windows partition in linux the XP partition needs to be formatted FAT32 (which stinks compared to NTFS, IMHO).

tareqth · 07-22-2005, 10:56 AM

This is the simplest way that strongly worked for me:

1. During WinXP setip, repartition your Hard drives this way:

Code:

hda - master
  hda1   50MB
  hda2
hdb - slave
  hdb1

hda1 is a reserved partition to install GRUB, just allocate it with about 50MB to ensure fitting it in the first 1024 cylinders and leave it unformatted.

2. Install WinXP on hda2, this partition (or more) should eat what's available on hda. I recommend using FAT32 not NTFS to ensure Linux protability of data.

3. Now boot linux installation.
A. delete hda1 and reallocate it, choose it to be "/boot" (boot partition)
B. hdb1 is where linux lives, format it with ext3 file system set it to be "/" (linux installation partition)
C. Choose installing boott loader on the first sector.

4. Start linux in rescue mode. Reboot from FC1-DC1, type

Code:

linux rescue

in command prompt, and when it loads type

Code:

chroot /mnt/sysimage

5. Mount your floppy drive, and format it with DOS comatibility:

Code:

mnt -t msdos /mnt/floppy /dev/fd0
mkdosfs /mnt/floppy

6. Copy your linux boot loader to the floppy diskette:

Code:

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin bs=512 count=1

7. Now reboot the machine normally (WinXP should naturally boot), login WinXp with administrative rights goto Start->Run and type this command:

Code:

notepad c:\boot.ini

8. Copy file LINUX.BIN from flopyp drive to c:\.

8. With notepad openned editiing boot information file boot.ini, add this line:

Code:

LINUX.BIN="Redhat Fedora Core 1 Linux"

(Or whatever you want the item to show at boot ...)

9. That's it !

syg00 · 07-23-2005, 01:36 AM

There is no need to re-install anything.
A simple 2 line addition (and maybe update 1 line as well) to menu.lst (or grub.conf depending on what FC uses).
After the "title" line for DOS add;

Code:

map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)

If you have a line root (hd0,0), or rootnoverify (hd0,0) change it to rootnoverify (hd1,0).

This has all been explained many times.