Red Hat 9 / WIn XP dual boot issue
 

Greetings and thanks in advance for any help. I have loaded Red Hat Linux on a separate drive on a system that has Win XP running already. I asked that it install GRUB not on the MBR but took the other choice (first sector of the boot partition). Now when I boot the machine the only thing that happens after BIOS finishes is that the GRUB word appears and nothing else happens from there.

My intention was to edit c:\boot.ini to give the dual boot option and load the linux.bin file on c: (as described in several web articles). But I have not gotten that far. Any ideas on how I can get past the GRUB word on the screen after BIOS? (I am surprise that at least linux is not booting up since GRUB seems to have take over :-()

Thanks!

Gery

it's sort of obvious that grub did end up on the mbr.
i don't know a specific util, but booting with the XP
cdrom, and picking check disk or something should
install the bootloader back, shouldn't it.
i guess you could try again with lilo.

use a bootdisk instead and as suggested, fix your mbr by putting in the xp cd rom and using the repair option or whatever it is.

Re: Red Hat 9 / WIn XP dual boot issue
 

ggross,

why don't you just use the grub loader to dual boot? Is there a reason why you don't want to use grub?

Thanks for the swift replies. As it turns out, I caused the problem inadvertantly by setting the boot order in BIOS to my 2nd hard drive (the one with Linux on it) and not windows. I did this last month as I was attempting to install gentoo linux, with no luck (and after spending too many hours trying). So I set hda in the boot order after floppy instead of hdb and Windows strarted up.

I did not want to GRUB installed on the MBR because that is what I tried with the gentoo install and it hosed my Win disk during two attempts. I don't know enough about this stuff to understand what happened and I'm sure it's because I did something wrong. I'm glad it's working now and I hope it stays that way.

Thanks again for the replies.

Gery