[lug] DualBoot: Redhat 7.2 and WindowsXP

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

IIRC, someone said that Windows needs to be on a primary partition, at least
the earlier version.  Don't know about W2K and later.

On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 03:08:05PM -0700, quoth luke p:
> 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
> >