Re: Dual boot with a twist

From: Leon. (noemail_at_noemail.noemail.com)
Date: 01/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:56:51 +1100

"Donald" <NoOne@NoWhere.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1a736deb4827f79f989680@netnews.insightbb.com...
> I have been running Windows 98 and Redhat 9.0 in a dual boot system
> for a while now. I have two hard drives:
> 60GB master that contains windows 98
> 160GB slave drive that contains Linux Redhat 9.0.
> Partitioned such that the first 40GB is partitioned and formatted
> for Linux. (linux swap, ext3, etc.)
> The rest is FAT32 so that it can be shared between Linux and
> Windows 98.
> I was using GRUB to boot.
>
> I recently got Windows XP. Since my 60GB hard drive was going bad
> I bought a new 160GB hard drive and installed Windows XP on it.
>
> Now I cannot boot to Linux. The floppy I created at install of Redhat
> does not work. Most information on the web assumes that I have windows
> installed and I am installing Linux on top of it. The problem is
> that I have an existing Linux install with applications and date that
> I want to access.
>
> Can anyone suggest a way that I can boot the existing Linux partion
> without re-installing Linux?

boot your redhat CD, and press F1, then type 'Rescue'.

you can fix your grub...

Or first make the partitions and filesystems, then copy (nah, cpio ) the
files,
and then fix /etc/fstab and /etc/grub/whatever, and install grub...

>
> Regards,
> Donald

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