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boot poblems with red hat and linux
Name: James Date: October 12, 2002 at 16:28:27 Pacific OS: red hat 7.3 xp pro CPU/Ram: xp 1800 512 ddr
Comment:
hi i very new to linux ( like only used it for about 6 hrs). i only installed it because my friend said that i could dual boot it with win xp. now that i installed red hat on to a 2nd drive i can not get back to win. could u guys transluate what the pervious responses were into terms that a 1st time user could understand???
"here is the entry in my /boot/grub/menu.lst file for WinXP, which is on the first partition of hda1: title = XP chainloader = (hd0,0)+1
If you check menu.lst and don't have anything like this, try pasting the above and rebooting. Let me know how it works."
found at http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/12995.html
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Name: James
