Re: how to boot into linux in a dual-system.

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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:54:18 +0200

BeHealthy@gmail.com wrote:
> My machine has a linux operating system(redhat enterprise-4
> workstation). Today I installed windows XP on the same machine, and I
> didn't touch the partitions the linux used. After I finished
> installing XP, there isn't any menu allowing me to boot into linux
> anymore. I have the installation CD, and I ran it with rescue mode,
> which allowed me to access to linux file system again. But it didn't
> help, since after I reboot, I still didn't see the grub menu. What
> could I do?

You need to edit your /etc/grub.conf in rescue mode.
Dont forget to add a statement for Windento XP
Something like this:
title Wintendo
         rootnoverify (hd0,1)
         chainloader +1
Mention that hd0 is the first harddisk found in your system,
which in most cases ist the primary master (hda)
So if your Wintendo XP -Installation resides on partition
1 on the first disk found it is (hd0,0) ! and so on.
Maybe you take a look at /boot/grub/device.map if you r unsure.
To reinstall grub on the primary master disk run
grub-install /dev/hda from the rescue environment.
hth
Peer Hebing

> Thanks.
>

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