Re: XP and Redhat: dual boot problem

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Date: 01/29/04 

Date: 29 Jan 2004 13:02:33 -0800

Oh, I should have mentioned. I'm told Linux works better with FAT32,
than NTFS. My first partition on the second drive is a backup drive
of 15 gigs. I can copy the XP stuff to there easily, onto a
separate physical drive. I can also move things to and from each OS.

I'm having an awful time with my video drivers on my 4550
installation. Please take a look at my other posts. Please
mention what video card you are using, and attach your
XF86Config-4 file.

Installing ATI Radeon video drivers on Redhat Advanced Server

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Thanks a lot!

"joydeep roy" <deeya@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:<dn1Sb.30834$6O4.826174@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>...
> <linuxquestion@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:672ceaed.0401280725.7251f83c@posting.google.com...
> > See my other post:
> >
> > Dual booting XP, Linux with Grub, on Dell
> >
> > In the original post, it has what I did there.
> > I didn't use boot.ini. I used the MBR and
> > /boot/grub/grub.conf
> >
> > You need three lines in the xp section, not two that
> > is typically documented.
> >
> > Take a look. Let us know how it worked.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Finally it worked!
> The second hard disk had an extended partition with NTFS ( created from XP
> in Hard Disk1 )
> followed by the linux partition in the second half. I was planning to use
> this extended partition
> to ghost the primary hard disk 1. Since NTFS was not being seen by the
> ghost software
> so I started from the begining again. I used fdisk to delete all the
> existing partition in
> Hard Disk 2, including the linux partition. Created extended and logical
> partition in the first half of the
> hard disk 2 using fdisk. Installed a complete brand new linux with grub in
> the second half of the hard disk 2.
> It worked like a charm. System now comes up in grub, gives me the choice to
> switch OS.
> Also the old NTFS Extended partition that I removed did not have a logical
> partition in it
> and also it was not created by fdisk but my seagate disk vendor utility. I
> am not sure if this
> caused any confusion to grub.
>
> I agree that boot.ini in XP does not have to be modified at all.
>
> Thanks everyone,
> -Joydeep

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