RE: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-31 Thread Abhay Watwe
Mark: Thanks for recommending bootpart. I used it successfully and it did the trick. It also indicated that I needed to use the LBA flag in order to get dual boot working. I can now successfully boot into linux using my XP boot loader. Thanks to all who sent in comments and suggestions. Reg

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-30 Thread Robert Storey
Questions about GRUB get asked a lot. I usually refer people to this article, which is still a pretty good primer even though it was written a few years ago: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue85/4622.html GRUB is really good, and it's worth your time to learn how to install it and use i

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:45:32 -0500, abhay wrote: > > Any help with dual booting XP and Linux with XP boot loader will be much > appreciated. > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/os.html#OSBOOT -- paul It's working as coded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 16:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- > Any help with dual booting XP and Linux with XP boot loader will be much > appreciated. Just out of curiosity, is there some reason you HAVE to use the XP boot loader? I've found it much easier to use LILO as my bootloader and just c

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 05:45:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I also tried GRUB with GRUB installed on /dev/hda which is my first hard > disk. Upon rebooting the words GRUB were printed at the top left corner of > the screen and the machine simply hung after that. To install grub I would d