I recently installed Redhat v7.2 and I cannot access Windows XP anymore. In GRUB all that I can select is Red Hat. Does anyone know a way I can access windows Xp?

I have only worked with LiLo personally, but you need to boot into linux and edit the config file i would assume for grub (this is what is necessary in lilo). It might not have put XP on there because it is out of the 2 GB boot boundry. When you partition your system, any OS that is going to be bootable needs to be on a partition that starts within the first 2 GB of the drive. Anyway, read a tut for grub about the config file if you think you have partitioned everything right. hth and sorry i havent used that bootloader personally. -Ryan

I had the same problem with Win2k and Redhat 7.2. What I did was boot into windows 2000 command line with the boot disks I had created earlier and then I issued the fixmbr command and it got rid of Grub. Now I'm just using the linux boot disk when I want to access Redhat and the hard disk when I want win2k. It's a temporary solution but at least now I can access both operating systems.

I had slightly different problem to access linux. I installed Redhat 7.0 successfully and copied bootsect.lnx (size 512 bytes)to floppy. Added the line c:\bootsect.lnx="redhat 7" to the OS Loader. At the boot loader screen when i selected redhat 7, after displaying bootup message selection cursor returned to WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect, subsequently Linux not loaded. I tried couple of times. boot.ini file: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect C:\bootsect.lnx="redhat 7" Please help me to get dual boot.

Dual booting with XP and linux isnt hard if you have grub. Just open the grub config file (grub.conf) while in linux and add these lines Title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 boot and that is it. reboot the system and you have it. Have fun Dustin

I have similar problem. Cannot load grub. I don't want to boot from grub because I already have dual boot with win2K and winXP and I just want to add another redhat 7.2 entry into windowsXP boot loader. When I choose linux option at selection window, error message shows that grub hard disk error. My guess is that grub doesn't like NTFS. Did anybody load grub sucessfully from a NTFS? Frank