>> The system: >> P3 800Mhz >> 1GB RAM >> SCSI hard drives >> Adapatec 2930U2 scsi card > >> My plan: >> sda1: >> 100MB FAT32 DOS or even FreeDOS >> sda2: >> rest of the disk space for XP > >> sdb1: >> Linux - whole disk
I had a few free hours yesterday so I took an old XP VPC I had that had free disk space at the end of the drive and experimented. I booted the VPC from a DOS floppy, used fdisk to create a primary partition from some of the free disk space. I then formatted it, sys'd it, and installed grub. It worked great. With those results I went and did it in real life and it works great. Windows and Linux can read/write to the dos partition. Thanks to everyone for your comments. sda1: Windows XP ntfs sda2: DOS - fat32 sdb1: Linux - ext3 My grub.conf (installed on sda2): color light-gray/blue black/light-gray # End GRUB global section title DOS rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 title Win XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 Thanks, _________________________________________________________________ You live life beyond your PC. So now Windows goes beyond your PC. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/115298556/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
