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Dual booting Linux WinXP Separate HD's

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Name: Randy
Date: August 7, 2002 at 11:07:02 Pacific
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Ok, here's the setup. Running WinXP on the primary/master, primary/slave is storage space, secondary/master is Linux, Redhat 7.3, secondary/slave is cdr. I'm attempting to use the NTLoader for my boot loader instead of Lilo. I've heard to many stories about having problems booting XP with Lilo. Anyhow, the Linux install is a fully functional install, meaning I have grub on the mbr of the secondary/slave drive, and it boots fine when it is the only HD connected. The problem I'm facing is I can't seem to get my Linux drive to boot from the NTLoader. I've tried numerous ways of doing this, diff settings with the boot.ini and so forth, but no hope. Basically nothing out side of the system os's are on the dives. I would prefer not to reinstall either if possible. Any help on this mater would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Randy



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Name: abatis
Date: August 7, 2002 at 12:05:07 Pacific
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I am doing the same thing except I have win98/XP on master and RH3 on the last 10gigs of the 40 gig slave. I am using boot magic and it works slick. If the NTloader doesn't work at least you have alternatives.

Good Luck


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Name: dfx
Date: August 8, 2002 at 07:16:16 Pacific
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What happens when you try to boot linux from ntloader?

And btw, booting xp from lilo should be no problem at all. Works here anyway.


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