Triple booting WinXP/WinServer2003/RHEL3
 

Hi!,

I'm new to Linux. I'm trying to triple boot Windows XP Pro, Windows Server 2003 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the same system. This is how my system is setup:

Drive 1 - C: - 250gb ATA Windows XP partition
Drive 3 - D: - 120gb SATA Windows Server 2003 partition
Drive 2 - E: - 60gb ATA (drive I would like RHEL3 loaded on)

I have tried on more than one occasion to load RHEL after loading both versions of Windows, but all I have ended up with is the GRUB loader showing the word GRUB in the upper left corner with a flashing "_" right behind it. :(

I would like to know if anyone can help me get this setup WITHOUT loading another software product to handle the boot loader process.

Thank you in advance for your help,

Greg

Only thing I can think of is to check for a few things:

Is Grub installed on the master driver?
Is Grub installed to the MBR? (I'm assuming so...)

A friend of mine tried to dual boot windows and linux on two seperate drives... I guess it can be hard to do sometimes.

Triple booting WinXP/WinServer2003/RHEL3
 

GRUB loaded on the /boot partition of the drive that Linux is loaded. If I try to load it of the drive where the MBR is located, GRUB loads but then locks up.

What can be done to resolve this issue?

There was a similar tread a little while ago at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=188870 The way I solved my problems with grub are listed on the bottom. It is not the same error you are getting but it might be worth looking at some of the suggestions there. My solution was not Ideal as it involved changing boot sequence in the CMOS.

Are you trynig to use nt os loader to boot Linux?

Triple booting WinXP/WinServer2003/RHEL3
 

:scratch:I'm trying to use either NTLOADER or GRUB. Basically whichever one works, that one I'll use.:study:

so you extracted the bootsector with the dd command, copied it to c:\ and modified boot.ini, but all you get is "GRUB" when you try to boot it?

Triple booting WinXP/WinServer2003/RHEL3
 

Yes,

I've tried that as well. Yet the only thing I still get is the "GRUB_".

What do you recommend?

See if this helps, don't use the dd command in Linux, get bootpart, run it under Windows and use it to extract the bootsector from the partition which contains GRUB.

I have tried using the bootpart application, but it does not seem to work for me either.

maybe try lilo,
"liloconfig" use '' expert'' option. ,add linux and user partitions, and install it in the MBR of hda.? works for me...

egag

I will give it a try within a few days. Thanks for the advice.

why don't u load up through the rescue mode and then at the prompt

#chroot /mnt/sysimage
#grub-install /dev/hda

this will install grub om the mbr of hda

regards
gaurav