To my understanding grub is supposed to be a more robust boot manager, however I have not figured out how to modify any of the settings in grub. I have been extremely successful in modifying, adding, removing boot configurations to lilo however. It is much easier to use lilo with windows partitions in my opinion. 'Course that is probably because of my ignorance.....
Shannon On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 12:51, John Hebert wrote: > I've installed RedHat 7.2 with Grub as the boot loader > on a Sony Vaio laptop with M$ Windows XP on it > originally and had no problems. Make sure that during > the installation that it recognizes that Windows XP is > a boot menu option. > > When I blew away my RedHat 7.2 install and replaced it > with Gentoo booting using Grub, I _did_ wipe out my NT > boot loader. I was able to repair it with > http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm and now use a > Grub boot disk to boot into Gentoo. Gonna figure out > how to fix that one day... :) > > But before you do anything, make a WinXP Repair Disk. > WinXP is basically the same as WinNT as far as booting > goes. Read the following to find out how to multi-boot > WinNT and Linux: > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-LILO.html > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html > > But in your specific case, I'll bet it will work just > fine. You can always use the WinXP Repair Disk to > repair your NT boot loader. I think. If that doesn't > work, try: http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm > > Good luck! > > John Hebert > > --- Larry Braud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you install the 80GB (I assume not MB)? Do you > > have the CD for XP? > > If you did the above, you should have no trouble. > > The problem is when you > > purchase a computer with the XP CD in a hidden > > partition. I have heard that > > Linux install will wipe out the hidden partition. > > Comments anyone? > > Larry > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Bart G. Denys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <General@brlug.net> > > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 6:50 PM > > Subject: [brlug-general] Dual boot Windows XP and > > Red Hat 7.3 > > > > > > > I have 1G PIII with 80 MB HD: > > > > > > Partition 1 (FAT32) 20MB : windows XP > > > Partition 2 (FAT32) 20MB > > > Free and unformatted/unpartitioned 40 MB > > > > > > The install correctly identifies the extended > > partition of 40 MB and makes > > > it hda5. Additional boot/root/swap partitions are > > suggested. > > > > > > I have a choice of installing GRUB in the MBR > > (hda1) or at the beginning > > of > > > the linux boot partition. > > > > > > Question: > > > 1. Can I install in the MBR (hda1) without > > "screwing up" XP? > > > 2. If I can not and install at the linux boot > > sector, how do I get to it? > > > > > > I have seen several references to Win2000 and am > > not sure if that applies > > to > > > XP. > > > > > > Thanks again, > > > > > > Bart > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > General@brlug.net > > > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General@brlug.net > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience > http://launch.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
