-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Croft Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:48 AM To: Red Hat List Subject: RE: I can't boot Windows XP with Grub loader.
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:37, Otto Haliburton wrote: > You are saying here that if it was the C:\ drive(confusing). I think that > win98, winME etc. aren't able to configure with any drive letter other than > c, but winNT and win2k can. I don't know that winXP can so I hope that what > you are saying is true. > Let me clarify. When I first had this box, it was a Win98 box that was upgraded to a Win2k box. When I decided that I wanted Linux on the system, rather than try to fiddle more room out of the current drive, I used a spare hard drive I had. I installed that as the primary and the Windows drive as the slave. Then in grub.conf, I used the map command so that Windows would still think it was the C: drive. Another option was to edit the c:\boot.ini file on Win2k and make changes to the drive and partition info, but this was much easier. I also had set aside a small partition on the slave for FAT. This way, I can mount the FAT drive from either the Linux side or the Win2k side. This allows for moving files between the systems since Linux can't write to an NTFS mounted filesystem. (Supposedly, you can make changes in the kernel to allow for NTFS mounts read-only, but why bother if you can't write.) My second system was a little easier as it was a fresh system that I built. I bought a large hard drive and split the drive between the systems and installed XP first. Since they are both on the same drive, no issues with the mapping. Just a little helpful hint, from your Uncle Ed! ------- this method works for me...boot.ini is to confusing for me title Windows XP map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify(hd1,0) chainloader +1 -rene -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
