Hello,

Could you plz help me, I'm running windows XP (also win98 installed) and now I installed Red Hat also.

I issued the following command:
dd if=/dev/hdf8 of=/mnt/share/grub.dat bs=512 count=1
and this makes a grub.dat file to the shared partition, which is readable with both XP and Linux.
Then I copied this file to c:\. Now the problem is, that I don't remember what to add into the c:\BOOT.INI file to make this Linux visible and bootable from the OS menu at the Startup.

Boot.ini looks like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
C:\ = "Microsoft Windows"

So what should I write into this?
Linux is installed on the second hard disk, and it's the 3:rd partition on the disk.

EDIT: Added C:\grub.dat = "RedHat" into the boot.ini file
still not working... just says "Not a bootable partition"

thanks in advance

just a quick n easy Question N suggestion
doesnt red hat come with lilo 4.0
if so lilo will install on yr primary partition and make xp visible as winnt and make win 98 visible as 'HEHE' win98
you just got to use the lilo boot loader on the first primary
Sorry if i'm off the mark for what yr trying to do
seems to me u just want to beable to boot into 3 differant O.S's

what version of redhat did you install.
although that shouldnot matter anything over 7 i think even 6.2 ask you to install lilo/grub for a boot loader and this would of setup both windows and linux giving you 3 chooses upon boot.
So basically just install lilo or grub while in linux and setup the other so called os's

latest major version of lilo is 22.5

last time i used red head

to setup grub as root

root: grub-install /dev/hda

this will install grub over your master boot record.
find out what partions are for winXP and win98 and add them to
/boot/grub/grub.conf

after the linux setup at the bottom
use something like this example

title WinXP Virus
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

altough your safest bet is to reinstall linux and make sure the boot loader gets setup.