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WinXP & RH Linux 7.2 -- Boot problems

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Name: Ron
Date: June 12, 2002 at 15:31:54 Pacific
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WinXP installed first, 2 partitions on primary Hd. Ran GUI installer... uses GRUB for booting purposes.

After installing I do NOT get a choice of booting to WinXP or Linux. GRUB only shows ONE choise.. and that is Linux. Aargh.

So, while the installation went great and I have no problems running Linux... I cannot get access (boot into) WinXP.

Any help/advice will be greatly appreciated!



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Name: Tom
Date: June 13, 2002 at 04:11:16 Pacific
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You have to edit the grub configuration file. I've never used grub, I use lilo, so I can only guess that the config file is /etc/grub.conf.


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Name: Austin Keeley
Date: June 15, 2002 at 20:55:30 Pacific
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This also happened to me when installing RedHat Linux 7.2 . Tom is correct in saying that the grub.conf file must be editted. Simply add the following lines to the file:

title Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Now reboot and you should have the option of booting Windows XP.

By the way, I should give credit to the source that I found this info on.
http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=470



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