Re: Another RH9 / Win2k dual boot question
From: Rich Grise (spamdump_at_example.com)
Date: 01/28/04
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:33:58 GMT
I've just installed RH8.0 from "Red Hat for Dummies" on top of
W2000, and grub boots either just fine. W2000 itself is a problem,
but that's for the M$ NGs and stuff.
Normal Athlon 1.0, one 40GB HD,
/dev/hdb1 8 GB NTFS - W2K boot
/dev/hdb2 Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 16 GB NTFS - W2K data & stuff
/dev/hdb6 15 GB Linux
/dev/hdb7 512 MB swap
(my only drive is /dev/hdb, because for some reason my bios/
drive don't want to dance together at primary master, but
primary slave seems to be working OK)
Of course, they all say "Install me last," but I seemed to have
better luck installing Linux on top of W2K - if I do W2K last,
it's so arrogant it thinks it's the only OS there could possibly
be, and I never see the Linux partition. I suppose I could mess
with boot.ini, but I'm having enough trouble just getting W2K
to install and operate properly.
Anyway, I config'd grub during install, but I had a kind of
gotcha - the first time I booted after finishing the install
and stuff, I had to boot with the boot floppy I made during
the install; but then it found /dev/hdb6, fixed either grub
or the MBR or whatever it does, and now I get a menu:
Linux [blahblahblah]
W2K
My problem is with the Chinese router card, but that's for
another post.
Good Luck!
Rich
"Tim" <admin@sheerhell.lan> wrote in message
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> Tim <admin@sheerhell.lan> wrote:
>
> >> There's two ways that I know of to manage a dual-boot Windows 2000 and
> >> Linux system:
> >>
> >> 1. The system boots from the GRUB boot partition, and it can load up
> >> Linux, or Windows. I fixed up a friend's PC doing this, but I don't
use
> >> Windows 2000 myself.
>
>
> Tim Prince <timothyprince@xxxxsbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > That might require the linux kernel to be built with ntfs support, if
NTLDR
> > is installed on an NTFS partition. I'm not certain what the position is
> > for RH9, as I've had plenty of reasons to avoid it.
>
> I don't know, as it's only GRUB that needs to read from the other drive
> (just to boot it, Linux hasn't even started at that stage). Can GRUB do
> that already? Because I'm sure that my friend had an NTFS formatted
> drive.
>
> I'm not even sure if it comes to that (having to read an NTFS drive). I
> thought it was just a case of getting GRUB to chainload another drive's
> bootblock, and letting it take care of itself. After all, the
> motherboard BIOS doesn't have a restriction against booting up an NTFS
> drive, as far as I'm aware.
>
> >> 2. The system boots up from the Windows bootloader in the MBR, and you
> >> configure the Windows boot menu to boot as normal (into Windows), or
the
> >> file used by GRUB. I've not tried this.
>
> > This works even without the use of linux ntfs driver or a FAT32
partition,
> > and allows you to repair either OS without repairing the other.
>
> From a few points of view, this method does seem to have a few
> advantages. The only hard part is working out how to do it. It's not
> too complicated, but I wouldn't like to advise someone how to do it for
> the first time (for me, or them).
>
> I seem to recall two ways of doing it: The NT boot menu having an entry
> pointing to another bootable drive (the one with Linux), and letting
> Linux boot itself up. Or, making a copy of the files needed by GRUB,
> and putting them on the drive that NT reads.
>
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