Re: DUAL BOOT QUESTION - HELP PLEASE

From: Jesse Benton (jesse_at_bluenet.net)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 04:42:58 -0400

Dino Buljubasic wrote:
> HI,
> I am slowly moving to linux and am quite new in that field so forgive
> me on my win expressions
>
> I have 2 hard drives C (master) and D on my machine
>
> C drive has Win XP
> D drive has Windows 2003 Server on it
>
> I would like to install RH 7.2 on my C drive so I have it as:
>
> C drive with Win XP and RH 7.2
> D drive with Windows 2003 Server
>
> I have XP and 2003 Server already installed on C and D and would like
> to add Linux RH. How can I make it so that when I start my system, I
> can chose which OS to boot between these 3?
>
> Thank you

Dino,
        As of yesterday I got Win 98, XP and Fedora 2 all to boot from the same
drive. The major problem I ran into was a 4 primary partition's limit.
It seems as some of my installs used a swap file for their installs that
went over this limit of primary partitions. I used partition magic to
merge these partitions, but other software will do the same. I gave up
on LILO a few years back and use GRUB as my boot loader. I'm not sure
how it does it, but it seems to get over the 1024 boot sector
limitations. I hope this helps.

Jesse

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