Hi all, I have a Pentium 4 with 256 Meg of RAM. It is running Windows XP. Yesterday, I added another hard drive for linux installation. So, one hard drive has Windows XP and the other has Linux redhat 8.2. I am trying to make my system a dual boot system. Now here are my questions: 1) I am not sure whether I have used Lilo or Grub during installation. How can I know which one I am using? When I boot to Linux, it shows a man with a redhat in the left half of the screen, but no indication of Lilo or Grub. 2) How can I switch between Lilo and Grub? 3) The choices that I get during the reboot are: Linux, Dos and Linux bak. I am not sure what Linux bak is for. When I choose Linux, redhat comes up fine and everything is cool. When I choose Dos, nothing happens. I tried to modify lilo.conf and grub.conf to add Windows XP to the list, but for some reason it does not take into effect. Do I need to run anything after modyfing these two config files, or reboot should pick it up? When I reboot, nothing is changed!!! 4) What should I add to my lilo.conf or grub.conf in order to boot into windows XP? Thanks a lot, Payam.

Hi, You can tell if you are using Lilo if the boot menu is real ugly (VGA) :) The grub boot menu tends to look alot nicer and has higher resolution. At any rate, since you can boot into your linux system, it's a piece of cake to make changes. To start using grub, open a terminal window... At the prompt type: grub In the grub utility type: root (hdb1,0) note: That indicates that your "/" is on the second hard drive and the second partition. If it's correct, you will see a message about filesystem on ~~ ~ 83. Otherwise you need to change it. Now type: setup (hd0) note: That is the MBR of the first drive. Change it if you have a different setup. Now type: quit Now type: exit Check the /etc/grub.conf to make sure everything looks ok.

Hi, I wanted to know how to set dual boot options between windows 2000 and linux while botting of the system. Thanks, Srinath