On Wednesday 24 July 2002 21:24, Anshuman Rawat wrote: > 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.
Thats not an error message but a warning from the install process, as you see lilo or grub was installed. > 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. You need to change you lilo.conf file, or grub which ever you told redhat to install. I do not use grub so someone else will need to give you and example for grub lilo can be told to boot linux as default, it may be that in /etc/lilo.conf a line is presant default = xxx Simply change the xxx to the "name" stated in the linux portion lower down in the file, or if no default = is present place the linux entry as the first entry. Save the file and run lilo with the -t option, /sbin/lilo -t If no errors are found you will see something like; Added Linux * Added dos The boot sector and the map file have *NOT* been altered. Now rerun lilo as is. /sbin/lilo reboot and linux is the default system. Its all explained on my home page; http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/kernel.htm > > -Anshu > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
