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
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
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
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On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 16:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> 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
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
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:16:12AM -0700, Abhay Watwe wrote:
> Any help with dual booting XP and Linux with XP boot loader will be much
> appreciated.
Have you tried the HOWTOs?
http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww?type=html&location=/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en
Once upon a time that problem happens to me. The solution was pretty
easy indeed:
1. Boot from a rescue floppy or CD with rescue root=/dev/hd##
2. remount /dev/hd## to admite write
3. edit lilo.conf to meet your needs
4. Write LILO to /dev/hda, do this regardles of where is your linux system
AND
And thus we see that Abhay Watwe said, :
So I did use the right partition in the command. I still get the same
error.
You said that you got a bunch on 0s and 7s filling up the screen. Could
you look and see which letters it prints at the start (LIL or only L or
a whole bunch of LIs)? This wil
"Abhay Watwe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harshwardhan/All:
>
> I made a mistake in my original message. I used the following command to
> make linux.bin
> dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/linux.bin bs=512 count=1
>
> So I did use the right partition in the command. I still get the same
> error.
>
> Abh
"Abhay Watwe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard
> drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I
> installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. The machine
> does not have a floppy d
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And thus we see that Abhay Watwe said, :
> Hi:
Hi Abhay,
> I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first
hard
> drive. I added a second hard
And thus we see that Abhay Watwe said, :
Hi:
Hi Abhay,
I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard
drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I
installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. The machine
does not have a flop
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