[lug] DualBoot: Redhat 7.2 and WindowsXP

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

The following works for me just fine, with both NT 4.0 and W2K:

other=/dev/hda1
        label=winblows

Dhruva

On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 10:55:03PM -0600, quoth Justin:
> Has anyone successfully dualbooted this combo of OS's??? I tried to do 
> this over the weekend and failed miserably. I installed XP first and 
> that went fine. During the partition setup I left a partition for 
> linux as well as a swap space. So, after XP was working ok, I booted 
> to my 7.2 cd and installed Redhat and chose LILO as the bootloader. 
> During the install I had it setup linux as primary boot OS and added 
> XP as the secondary. When I booted with the final configuration the 
> 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