[lug] DualBoot: Redhat 7.2 and WindowsXP

[luke p]

yeah, always do windows first, unless the day comes our friends @ M$ would 
add the code for windows to see linux :)
-luke


>From: "Justin" <glow at jackmoves.com>
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Subject: RE: [lug] DualBoot: Redhat 7.2 and WindowsXP
>Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:53:44 -0700 (MST)
>
>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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