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i have i have two hd. one have winxp installed and in other fedora 6 with win 98. i can dual boot win98 or fedora using the 2nd hd but when i use both the hd winxp starts automatically.
my question is can i configure grub in some way so that i can boot winxp, fedora , win98. how should i connect my two hd then.
(make sure you replace hdb with whatever you find)
you take the /path/to/windows98/partition/bootsec.lnx file and put it onto your c drive in windows xp, you should be able to access the windows98 partition from within xp.
In windows xp, open cmd.exe and type
cd\
attrib -R -S -H C:\boot.ini
In notepad open c:\boot.ini and you add a line like the following:
c:\bootsec.lnx="Linux and Windows 98"
There are several different ways to accomplish the same thing but the best about this setup is that any upgrades won't bother your boot. You boot the partitions instead of the operating systems.
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hdc7 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
/dev/hdc1 on /mnt/Windows/C type vfat (rw,umask=0000)
/dev/hdc5 on /mnt/Windows/D type vfat (rw,umask=0000)
/dev/hdc6 on /mnt/Windows/E type vfat (rw,umask=0000)
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