[ale] GRUB & dual boots Questions

[John LaPierre]

(sorry to double post this, I wasn't paying attn to my subj line)

I had the exact same problem with the exact same software and nearly the
exact same setup. Someone will no doubt tell you how to fix it, but not me.
I never could figure it out. At least not the Grub part. But... if you
choose LILO in the MBR that should do the trick. If your bent on using Grub,
www.shaolinuxtemple.org has a good primer on it. Of course, there's always
the obvious way to fix a dual boot problem...

John L
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On Thursday 13 June 2002 05:24 pm, LIDGE,CATHERINE (HP-Loveland,ex1) wrote:
> Currently I have a dual boot setup with XP and Red Hat 7.3, I am using GRUB
> as my boot loader and have run into a large issue, it seems I may simply be
> missing a step.  Currently when I boot, my boot.ini displays a dual option:
>
> XP Pro
> Red Hat 7.3
>
> But if select Red Hat 7.3 it will reboot the unit.
>
> My grub.conf looks like:
>
> #boot=/dev/hd5
> default=0
> timeout=0
> splashimage=(hda0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)
>            root (hda0,4)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev//hda5
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img
>
>
> My HDD is partitioned:
>
> /dev/hda1   *     1            406      3069328+     7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2        407         1761    10243800      5  Extended
> /dev/hda5        407         948       4097488+    83  Linux
> /dev/hda6        949         1490     4097488+    83 Linux
> /dev/hda7       1491        1558     514048+     82 Linux SWAP
> /dev/hda8          1559     1626     514048+            83 Linux
>
> /dev/hda9        1627       1755     975208+            83 Linux
>
> My boot.ini:
>
> [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
> Professsional" /fastdetect
> C:/GRUBBoot.lnx="Red Hat 7.3"
>
> After I installed Red Hat 7.3, I followed the following steps:
>
> 1.    #dd if=/dev/hda5 of=GRUBBoot.lnx bs=512 count=1
> 2.    then I copied GRUBBoot.lnx to my recovery or backup redhat floppy
> 3.    Then in XP I copied GRUBBoot.lnx to C:\ directly
> 4.    Editing my boo.ini see above
>
> I have also run grub-install /dev/hda5 again and still system will only
> reboot itself after the Red Hat selection.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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