Re: Dual Boot XP - RH 9 problem

From: Rich Piotrowski (abuse_at_wi.rr.com)
Date: 11/09/03 

Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 03:47:50 GMT

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 20:46:51 -0500, "Kevin"
<kevin.matan@REMOVE.corp.stargate.net> wrote:

>I orginally had XP Pro installed with a large amount of free space, so I
>created the usual partition at the end of the drive to install RedHat 9.0.
>
>Everything with the installation went just fine. I chose to install GRUB.
>I made a boot disc. I am able to boot into RH9 with the boot disc just fine
>(boots into XP without the disc), however I'd like to config the NT
>Bootloader to recognize Redhat and boot from it as well.
>
>While in a shell I did the following:
>
>mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy <return>
>
>dd if=/dev/hdc5 of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 <return>
>

Does /dev/hdc5 contain the /boot directory?

>It copied the LINUX.BIN file to the floppy just fine.
>
>I rebooted into XP and copied LINUX.BIN from the floppy to my XP drive
>(F:).
>
>Then, I went into the boot.ini file and added
>F:\LINUX.BIN="Linux"
>
>The boot.ini currently looks like this:
>
>[boot loader]
>timeout=30
>default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
>[operating systems]
>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
>Professional" /fastdetect
>F:\LINUX.BIN="Linux"
>
>
>When I restart Windows, I get the bootloader with two options. XP first,
>then Redhat. XP boots just fine. If I select Redhat, I get something to
>the effect of:
>
>Windows could not be started.
><windows root>\sys32\hal.dll
>Please reinstall
>
>If I do a hard reset, I can still boot into Windows.
>
>My question is, Do I need to modify the boot.ini file in some other way? Or
>is there something else I missed?
>

I don't know. I used to do it that way myself. It looked correct to me
other than the question I asked. Did you get your instructions here?

http://www.poopoccurs.com/linux/dualboot.html

If not, review those for good measure.

>
>Thank you in advance to anyone that can help!
>
> 

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