Hi,
I want to have both WinXP and Linux (RHL7.3) on my system but am having
trouble with the partitions. My partition table (i dunno whether thats the
correct term) looks like this (as shown by linux installer ) -
Start End Size(MB) Type
Mount point Format
/dev/hda
-Free 1 1 8 Free
space
-dev/hda1 2 7 47 vfat
No
-/dev/hda2 8 708 5499 NTFS
No
-/dev/hda3 709 2432 13523 Extended
-/dev/hda5 709 1413 5530 NTFS
No
-/dev/hda6 1414 1419 47 ext2
/boot Yes
-/dev/hda7 1420 1453 267 swap
Yes
-/dev/hda8 1454 2432 7697 ext2
/ Yes
the error message i get is -> Boot partition may not meet booting
constraints for your architecture. Creation of boot disk is highly
encouraged.
The options I get is "modify partition" and "add anyway". If I proceed with
'add anyway' option installation is succesful but I dont get the option of
selecting the OS for booting the PC and the PC boots using WinXP.
I tried changing the /dev/hda1 partition to ext2 ,mount pt /boot. The
installation was succesful and so was the boot, but then the option of
starting with WinXP dissapeared. I could only boot with Linux
Can anyone help me out here?
btw I used Partition Magic from WinXP to partition the disc as I dont know
how to work around usinf fdisk in Linux.
-Anshu
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