BOOT Problem
 

:newbie:

OK, yes I am a dumb ass....I have a 30 Gig hard drive and decided i will install linux Red Hat 7.2 on the same hard drive as WINXP but on different partitions. Win XP is on C-Drive with 20 GIG and Linux is On 2nd partition with 10 GIG. I installed linux and it is now the defult loader and soes not give me the option to load XP. I am a complete Linux idiot...I just installed it to learn a little about it.

Please Help,

I want to be able to dual boot.

vi /etc/lilo.conf
 

first,fdisk ,see your hda? of WinXP
add the following :
root = /dev/hda?
label="WinXP"
table = /dev/hda

I say, would he need to type (as root)
/sbin/lilo to initiate it?

Just a thought :)

Wazza

I also dualboot. I found it easiest to let the boot.ini file handle the process. Also when installing don't write to the MBR.

Here's the link that walks you step-by-step.

good luck

Thanks everyone, got it to work!!!