I need help with grub and trying to dual boot rh9 and winxp pro

slicker · 08-30-2003, 10:27 AM

Hi all, First of all I'm new to red hat and I'm trying to dual xp pro and red hat 9.0 xp is on a separate hdd (hda) linux is on the sedoncary slave (hdd). My question is how can I either get the grub loader to recognize xp and/or how can I let win xp to recognize linux? I need to know how to setup either boot loader so when the computer is booted I receive a menu with the option to boot linux or windows.....

Any help would be appreciated!

slicker · 08-30-2003, 10:40 AM

I am also interested in switching boot loaders from grub to lilo but I am not aware of how to do so because I've just started fresh with linux this week.....

Mathieu · 08-30-2003, 10:44 AM

You will need to install GRUB in the MBR of /dev/hda (the winXP HDD). So in Linux, login as root and type:

Code:

/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda

Now, you will need to make some modification to /boot/grub/grub.conf (the GRUB configuration file).
You should have an entry for windowsXP.

Code:

title WindowsXP
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1