Ok, let me add this to my original question; if I buy a second Hard Drive, and have one drive completely Linux and the other completely Windows XP, where do I put the boot loader. Also, what boot loader should I use: GRUB, LILO, or Boot Magic?
Thanks, Rob Yale -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of rob Sent: April 15, 2002 2:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dual boot question Hi folks, I have a Dell box that I want to make dual boot. The box: P4, 512meg RDRAM, 20 gig hard drive, Windows XP The problem: The problem is the cylinder 1024 problem, I think. What I've tried: 1) I used Partition Magic to create 6gig of empty space, and I moved the NTFS partition a bit higher so that I could create a 50 meg /boot partition well below cylinder 1024. 2) The partitions on the drive go like this (in order) a) Dell Utility (50 or so meg in size) b) /boot ext3 partition (50 meg) c) NTFS Win XP partition (12 gig) d) Extended partition containing: i) /swap (1024 meg) ii) / (the rest of the hard drive which is about 6 gig) 3) Since Boot Magic won't work on NTFS, I specified GRUB in the RH installer as my bootloader. When I boot the computer, it goes directly into Windows, and doesn't go into GRUB. Do I have to do something in BIOS? Any ideas? Thanks, Rob Yale _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
