[lug] DualBoot: Redhat 7.2 and WindowsXP - SOLVED

[Justin]

Well, I finally got the dualboot to work. What I did different was I 
used linux fdisk to partition my disk instead of the partition tool 
that came with WindowsXP. Once I had the partitions set I booted to 
the XP cd and installed WinXP. After that I booted to the Redhat 7.2 
cd and selected LILO as my bootloader (still a little hesitant to try 
grub :) ) and added the winXP partition as optional. Once the linux 
install was done I was able to boot to both OS's. So the trick here 
seemed to be using linux fdisk to make the partitions and not the XP 
tool. I should have known too, cause I've always used the linux fdisk 
even when installing windows first :/

Justin

> 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
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