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I installed XP in hda1 and Slackware on hda4.
Hda2 is swap. When i installed Red Hat 9.0 on Hda3 it doesn't see Slackware installed, altough i added it installing RH.
I am using Grub.
What should i add in boot/grub/grub.conf?
I saw it treats Slackware as XP.
Thank you.
Franco (Italy)
I'm guessing you let redhat install GRUB over your old Slackware bootloader? Do you have a /boot partition? What's currently in your grub.conf?
Maybe try something like this:
If this enable you to boot into Slackware, go to /boot/grub/ and open the file grub.conf or menu.lst. Copy the entry for Slackware, boot into Redhat and add the entry into /boot/grub/grub.conf there.
I have a problem with my lilo configuration. (But it might be a XP, or hardware problem so I won't blame lilo for the moment)
I want to be able to boot both slackware and xp.
hda - slackware 9
hde - xp
My hde (ata-100) disk will appear as the first disk if I choose to boot from it in the bios.
So if I install lilo in the MBR on my firs disk (hde, it's an ata100 device) I get the error message: 99 99 99 ... (invalid second stage index sector)
If I install lilo in the MBR on my hda disk (and tell bios to boot from hda) I manage to boot slackware, but not XP. Just a black screen when I choose xp. I think xp only works on the first disk...
What to do? - Help me please!
I have searched booth google and the forums at least 100 times.
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