[lug] Dual Boot with Windows XP

[Glenn Murray]

Hi,

I have a similar "Dell Utility" partition on my 8200 Desktop.  Recent
readers of the list will recall I was trying to make this a dual-boot
machine with Linux on a second drive.  When I ran LILO to that partition I
could no longer boot XP or Linux and I had to restore the partition with
the usual dd command that you see in the How To's.

By the way, I copied grub's first and second stage stuff to a floppy as
per the grub docs and tried to run that, but it croaked, too.  I'm
currently thinking that if you have XP on your primary drive and want to
boot Linux from a second drive you have to use the XP boot loader.

On the other hand, on several machines with Win2K and Linux on the same
disk I had no problem writing LILO to the MBR.

Good luck,
Glenn Murray
http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray


On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, J. Wayde Allen wrote:

> On 3 Jul 2002, Hugh Brown wrote:
>
> > The last 8M is because MS is braindead about its partitioning.
> > I have never had any success using MS partitioning tools (at install
> > time anyway) to claim that last 8M.  It just refuses to do it.
>
> That is interesting!
>
> > You aren't going to miss 32MB so I would leave it alone, shrink the XP
> > down to 4-5gigs and then use the rest for linux.
> >
> > On my laptop, I have a "Dell Utility" partition listed as /dev/hda1 with
> > a size of 32MB.
> >
> >    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hda1             1         4     32098+  de  Dell Utility
>
> Makes sense, and it looks like I have the same partition.  Of course, I'm
> still wondering what this partition contains?  Any reason I should keep
> it?
>
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)
>
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