[ale] GRUB & dual boots Questions

[John LaPierre]

Your welcome, but just one question please. How did you do it? Inquiring minds 
want to know...

Thanks -  : ^)

jj

On Tuesday 18 June 2002 05:19 pm, you wrote:
> Thank you John,
>
> Got XP and GRUB working well together.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John LaPierre [mailto:jjlapierre at knology.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:02 PM
> To: LIDGE,CATHERINE (HP-Loveland,ex1)
> Subject: Re: [ale] GRUB & dual boots Questions
>
> 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
>  - - -
>
> 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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