Re: dual boot system
From: Benoit Morrissette (benoitmorrissetteNO_at_SPAMvideotron.ca)
Date: 07/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:37:38 -0400
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:22:26 -0400, "Neerav Sheth"
<shethn@stwing.upenn.edu> wrote:
>Hi all, I'm planning to install FC2 on a second partition on my Dell
>Inspiron8200 (the first partition holds my WinXP os) - and from what I
>understand, this is doable. The question I have is (and I'm sorry for
>double posting if this has already been covered here before) - but, aside
>from setting up a fat32 partition on my hard drive (NTFS) and using vfat, is
>there anyway to access the partition from FC2?
>
>Also, before I get started, has anyone had any personal experience doing
>this?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>-Neerav
>
I did it. I have Win98, WinXP and FC2, each on their own partitions.
First, you absolutely need a FAT16 or FAT32 partition to do multiboot
with Microsoft's systems.
Second, does the second partition already exist? If not, you need to
defragment your hard drive then shrink the WinXP part. with Ranish
Partition Manager or Partition Magic. If you do not have a FAT32
part., you need to create one also.
WARNING: I am not sure but i think that the FAT32 part. must be the
first one on the hard disk... Also, adding a FAT32 part. will shift
the drive letters for the Windoz system so C:\Windows will become
D:\Windows etc... but in the registry the C:\s will not be changed to
D:\s so you are in for big troubles...
Finally, the Microsoft MultiBoot loader needs a "boot.ini" on the
first part. of the disk. In this file, you need to add two lines like
this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
C:\="DOS"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Part2"
/fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Part3"
/fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Part4"
/fastdetect
( here the "/fastdetect"s has been wordwrapped down, they should be at
the end of the preceeding lines)
I have added the Windows XP Partx lines because i am not sure how the
BIOS will assign the partitions numbers, so only one of the XP lines
will boot ( in my case, it is number 2)
Well, as you can see, there are many possibilities for mistakes...
To recap, here is the (easy) procedure:
1- Start with a fresh hard disk
2- set-up at least three partition on it:
a- first FAT32
b- second NTFS
c- don't care, will be used by FC2
3- Install Win98
4- Install WinXP
5- Add needed lines in "boot.ini"
6- Install FC2
Note that you cannot swap steps 3 and 4 above. If you do, you must go
back to step 2...
Hope this helps.
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