Dual boot problems
I just got a new bigger hard drive which I decided to make dual boot RH9 and WIN XP. This is my first dual boot install and my second Linux install so I am still very new to this. I had install CDs for linux before Windows so I installed that first. With RH9 as the only OS it worked fine but once I installed Windows Linux won't boot up. I used the linux install CD to set RH9 as the primary boot but it still won't. I thought the next step would be to boot off a floppy and start looking at the boot settings. I don't have a floppy drive though so I decided to make a boot disk on my other machine running linux that does have a floppy drive then copy that onto a CD. That didn't work either. What else can I do to get Grub to boot before Windows?
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To make it easy on yourself, just install XP first and then linux. You will avoid some pain this way.
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Okay thanks. I had thought of that but I thought I would see if there was anything more eficient than a complete reinstall. I do remember reading that it was preferable to install windows first.
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smartbootmanager will find any bootable partition, you can download a cd iso
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I typically put grub on a floppy when installing Linux. This leaves the mbr for windows undisturbed.
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Did u try booting with the rescue cd
chroot /mnt/sysimage and then grub-install /dev/hda or whichever your hard disk is if you get the grub prompt then you can try manually issuing the commands in grub command mode and try to troubleshoot things |
Thanks for the help. I just reinstalled linux. Now I just have to get my wireless working.
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Reinstall Grub or Edit C:\Boot.ini
Either install grub again or edit boot.ini in windows from:
[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect to [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\boot\grub="Red Hat Linux" Where the 1 and 3 are, make sure those point to the correct partitions. |
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