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Hello All... I've just come across this forum, and am hoping that someone might be able to help me with a problem.
I have a 1.4ghz Athlon system with 3 HD's.
HD1 40gb Western Digital (Win XP Pro -NTFS)
HD2 40gb Western Digital (Back up of above)
HD3 20gb Western Digital (Blank)And I want to install RH7.2 onto the 3rd HD. I tried installing it, no probs... except Lilo and/or Grub did not pick up my XP! This caused me alot of problems, and had to reinstall everything (Although I now know this was not nessicary!).
Does anyone know how I can set up a boot loader to choose between XP and RH7.2? Is it not listing it because the XP install is on NTFS and not FAT32? Also looked at a couple of other similar post, one of which said about XOSL, but from looking at their site it seems out of date, and I could not see any mention of NTFS or Windows XP.
I know Mandrake 8.2 installs fine, and allows me the option to dual boot between XP and Mandrake, except I really need to use RedHat 7.2!
Any help will be very much appreciated...
Regards
Phil.
Phil,
Unfortunately i have come across the same problem and have not yet been able to solve it. My hdd's are setup as:
master hdd 4gb: Redhat 7.2
slave hdd 40gb: WinXPi made the 40gb a slave because i wanted to protect my winxp setup (ie protect the mbr) i cant afford to lose that setup right now.
lilo/grub will not boot up my winxp partition on the separate hdd. when it tries too, it says 'loading winxp' with a blinking cursor and hangs. i've tried playing with the lilo config but no luck so far. :(
andrew
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Andrew, I pretty sure that you should have Windows on your master, and Linux on your slave, as Windows like to be the main OS.
Soon as I find an answer to this problem (If it's not given here) I will put a post here. Hopefully if you find an answer before me, please post it here!
Regards
Phil
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Phil,
Yes thats fair enuf about windows should be the master disk. I just didnt want lilo to overwrite the mbr of my winxp disk so i made the linux disk the master. do u know of anyway to save the current mbr so u can restore it if things go wrong ?
andrew
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Dont know how to save MBR im affraid...
Think I will slap Mandrake 8.2 on instead as that has no problems dualing with XP!
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I'm trying the same. I've got XP on my master disk (hda) and RH7.2 on my slave (hdb). I read that if you install LILO to hdb, you can use the XP boot loader to start LILO by doing sonthing like:
1) From RH:
dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/bootsect.lnx block=512 count=1
2) Copying bootsect.lnx to floppy
3) Booting XP and copying bootsect.lnx to c:\
4) Editing c:\boot.ini to point to the new file
5) RebootingUnfortunately I cant get this to work. Its almost right I'm sure, as when I boot and select linux it displays the text "LILO" and then hangs. I've tried the same with the GRUB bootloader to no avail.
Anybody have any suggestions?
Steve
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Phil,
i installed mandrake like you did and whammo, it works fine now with the linux disk as master and the windows one as slave. have u tried pulling the lilo.conf file from mandrake and whacking it onto your redhat install ? i noticed the lilo.conf for mandrake was a fair bit different than that of the redhat one.
andrew
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well y are teling y are facing problems.but i have plenty of solutions as i have winxp,win2k and rehat7.2 on the same machine
sol(1)making win98se primary boot or loading on c: removes many boot problems and also it is faster.
(2)get hold of 3rd party boot managers like bootit or paragon software to have sofisticated control of booting and overall maintenace of machine
enjoy pritam
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Andrew,
I had the same problem.
WinMe Master
WinXP, FreeBSD, Redhat 7.2 - SlaveIn the /boot/grub/grub.conf
After title Windows XP but before the
"rootnoverify" line, I typed the lines:
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)I makes WinXP think it is on the first hard
drive, and it will hopefully load.
---Steve,
I can only boot Grub (Stage 1, MBR, 512
bytes) from a boot disk. It points to the /boot
paritiion where Grub continues to load the
menu (Stage 2). Grub hangs (or fills the
screen with GRUB GRUB GRUB...) when I try
to boot from the HD. I'm not sure what is
causing the problem there.-Dave
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I have a solution that works great.
Just add the correct entry for the XP
partion into the lilo.conf file.Upon installation of Redhat lilo can't read
the ntfs partition of XP so it ignores it
and does make an entry into the lilo.conf
file. So manually add it in the "other
section and the default section if you want
XP to be the default OS" as shown in my
example lilo.conf file below.Here I have one drive with multiple
partitions. The 1st drive and the XP
partiton is /dev/hda1A second drive and 1st partition would be
/dev/hdb1After you save the changes to lilo.conf
just type lilo and the command prompt.ex. # lilo
lilo will update the itself with the new
pointer to XP. It's simple
prompt
timeout=50
default=WinXP
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
linearimage=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda6other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=WinXP
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Hi there,
I have XP on master and redhat on slave and installed xp first then redhat. I downloaded the latest kernel version linux-2.4.9-34 and tried this out. While going through the setup it gives you the option of enabling NTFS support with "Y" which will write directly to the kernel or "m" which will write to tyhe module however after completing this using "m" as instructed I still cannot get it to work. I tried using a line in "/etc/fstab" like:
"/dev/hdc1 mnt/hdc1 NTFS/HPFS noauto, uid=700,gid=700,umask=007 0 0" hoever this did not work either. If anyone has an idea of how to solve this I sure would like to hear from you. Thanks!Robb Fenwick
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