[lug] DualBoot: Redhat 7.2 and WindowsXP

[Justin]

So did you do you XP install or Redhat installation first? What I'm 
used to doing is installing Windows, creating partitions for linux at 
the front of the disk and then the windows partition at the end. Once 
Windows is installed I then install linux on the partitions I had left 
on the front of the disk. Usually that works ok, maybe I'll give it a 
go again tonight, thx for the help so far...

Justin

> 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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