[lug] DualBoot: Redhat 7.2 and WindowsXP

luke p linuxluke_20 at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 28 15:08:05 MST 2001


I have that current set up working, though it was before a win2k and rh 7.2, 
just when I set up my partitions on a large hd, i had to put just a 50 mb 
linux boot partition at the front of the drive(before the 1024 cylinder 
mark), then my ntfs partion, then after that all my linux partitions.
either that or add the line 'lba32' into lilo.conf (i think thats all to 
that)


-luke



> >LILO boot screen came up and showed both "Linux" and "winXP". I booted
> >linux first and it worked fine. After messing w/ that for a while I
> >decided to make sure my XP install still worked. Well, it didn't work
> >at all. I checked my lilo.conf and had:
> >
> >other=/dev/hda6
> >label=winXP
> >
> >I thought that looked right but still my XP wouldn't work. So, anyone
> >have any ideas how to approach this? Should I try the GRUB loader?
> >
> >Justin
>
>I could never get LILO to work properly under W2K much less XP and grew
>tired of trying. I just ended up leaving a boot disk in the floppy drive
>that I pushed in whenever I needed to boot into Linux.  However I decided 
>to
>try GRUB with the 7.2 install and to my joy it really has worked quite
>nicely.
>
>
>Mike
>
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