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FineNDandy
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 Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 2:46 am Post subject: Dual booting W2K and Linux on TWO HDs |
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Hi all. Can anyone tell me or direct me to a web site that explaines
how to dual boot W2K and Linux? I have TWO hard drives one with Redhat
Linux 7.2 and the other with Windows 2000Pro. First, I jumpered the
Linux drive as master, installed it and put GRUB in the boot partition
of that drive. I made 2000 the slave drive because Linux will see
Windows but Windows will not see the Linux drive. My other question
is; Do I have to put GRUB someplace on the W2K drive and if so where?
Do I have to reconfigure the Linux kernal somehow and what do I put in
boot.ini of windows? Thanks for any advise. |
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Simon Comeau Martel
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 3:02 am Post subject: Re: Dual booting W2K and Linux on TWO HDs |
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On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 21:46:46 GMT
FineNDandy <ultraflt@earthlink.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi all. Can anyone tell me or direct me to a web site that explaines
how to dual boot W2K and Linux? I have TWO hard drives one with Redhat
Linux 7.2 and the other with Windows 2000Pro. First, I jumpered the
Linux drive as master, installed it and put GRUB in the boot partition
of that drive. I made 2000 the slave drive because Linux will see
Windows but Windows will not see the Linux drive. My other question
is; Do I have to put GRUB someplace on the W2K drive and if so where?
Do I have to reconfigure the Linux kernal somehow and what do I put in
boot.ini of windows? Thanks for any advise.
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If grub is your boot loader, to configure it, you have to modify the file /boot/grub/grub.conf Add something like those lines to it, and you should have an option to boot Windows on the next reboot:
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
[ Replace hd1,0 by the partition of Windows
ie: hd1 = primary slave ,0 = first partition on this disk.
]
You have nothing to change on the Windows side.
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Simon Comeau Martel
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FineNDandy
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 3:13 am Post subject: Re: Dual booting W2K and Linux on TWO HDs |
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On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 18:02:03 -0400, Simon Comeau Martel
<martelsc@videotron.ca> wrote:
| Quote: | On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 21:46:46 GMT
FineNDandy <ultraflt@earthlink.net> wrote:
Hi all. Can anyone tell me or direct me to a web site that explaines
how to dual boot W2K and Linux? I have TWO hard drives one with Redhat
Linux 7.2 and the other with Windows 2000Pro. First, I jumpered the
Linux drive as master, installed it and put GRUB in the boot partition
of that drive. I made 2000 the slave drive because Linux will see
Windows but Windows will not see the Linux drive. My other question
is; Do I have to put GRUB someplace on the W2K drive and if so where?
Do I have to reconfigure the Linux kernal somehow and what do I put in
boot.ini of windows? Thanks for any advise.
If grub is your boot loader, to configure it, you have to modify the file /boot/grub/grub.conf Add something like those lines to it, and you should have an option to boot Windows on the next reboot:
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
[ Replace hd1,0 by the partition of Windows
ie: hd1 = primary slave ,0 = first partition on this disk.
]
You have nothing to change on the Windows side.
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Thank you for the quick response. I'll give it a try. |
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Tom MacIntyre
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 3:29 am Post subject: Re: Dual booting W2K and Linux on TWO HDs |
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On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 21:46:46 GMT, FineNDandy <ultraflt@earthlink.net>
wrote:
| Quote: | Hi all. Can anyone tell me or direct me to a web site that explaines
how to dual boot W2K and Linux? I have TWO hard drives one with Redhat
Linux 7.2 and the other with Windows 2000Pro. First, I jumpered the
Linux drive as master, installed it and put GRUB in the boot partition
of that drive. I made 2000 the slave drive because Linux will see
Windows but Windows will not see the Linux drive. My other question
is; Do I have to put GRUB someplace on the W2K drive and if so where?
Do I have to reconfigure the Linux kernal somehow and what do I put in
boot.ini of windows? Thanks for any advise.
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I am making a few assumptions here, based on your post. I have never
been faced with this exact situation, and my suggestions are based on
my own multiple boot setups, which were done in a different way.
The typical way to do this is to install W2k (on whatever partition
you want to, but the boot information is of course on the master),
then install Linux (its boot information is also on the master, but it
can keep the W2k boot information available) and tell it you want to
be able to use W2k when that comes up during the installation.
Since you already started with 2 existing installations...I don't
know, except possibly a third party boot manager will come to grips
with this. The boot sector on the boot drive has to be aware that W2k
is there, I think, and if they are on separate "physical" hard drives,
with separate installations, that isn't going to happen, unless there
is a trick of which I am unaware.
What might work is to make the W2k drive your master, the Linux drive
your slave, then reinstall Linux to its correct drive (no need to
reformat, hopefully), telling it to keep the Windows installation.
This will put Linux boot information on your W2k drive, and allow both
to boot. Back everything up first, if possible.
Someone may have a better suggestion, and be more sure that it will
work. Good luck.
Tom |
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Joe
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 6:01 pm Post subject: Re: Dual booting W2K and Linux on TWO HDs |
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use BOOTNG,it tricks OS into all installing on C,
Can have many OS on same PC,but it conflicts with GOBAck,like XP does
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ |
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