Mark:
Thanks for recommending bootpart. I used it successfully and it did the
trick. It also indicated that I needed to use the LBA flag in order to
get dual boot working. I can now successfully boot into linux using my
XP boot loader.
Thanks to all who sent in comments and suggestions.
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:45:32 -0500, abhay wrote:
Any help with dual booting XP and Linux with XP boot loader will be much
appreciated.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/os.html#OSBOOT
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Questions about GRUB get asked a lot. I usually refer people to this
article, which is still a pretty good primer even though it was written
a few years ago:
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue85/4622.html
GRUB is really good, and it's worth your time to learn how to install it
and use
Hi:
I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard
drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I
installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. I made a dos
boot CD using instructions at bblcd and used loadlin to boot into
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 05:45:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also tried GRUB with GRUB installed on /dev/hda which is my first hard
disk. Upon rebooting the words GRUB were printed at the top left corner of
the screen and the machine simply hung after that.
To install grub I would do
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 16:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Any help with dual booting XP and Linux with XP boot loader will be much
appreciated.
Just out of curiosity, is there some reason you HAVE to use the XP boot
loader? I've found it much easier to use LILO as my bootloader and just
And thus we see that Abhay Watwe said, :
snip
So I did use the right partition in the command. I still get the same
error.
snip
You said that you got a bunch on 0s and 7s filling up the screen. Could
you look and see which letters it prints at the start (LIL or only L or
a whole bunch of LIs)?
Once upon a time that problem happens to me. The solution was pretty
easy indeed:
1. Boot from a rescue floppy or CD with rescue root=/dev/hd##
2. remount /dev/hd## to admite write
3. edit lilo.conf to meet your needs
4. Write LILO to /dev/hda, do this regardles of where is your linux system
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:16:12AM -0700, Abhay Watwe wrote:
Any help with dual booting XP and Linux with XP boot loader will be much
appreciated.
Have you tried the HOWTOs?
Hi:
I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard
drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I
installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. The machine
does not have a floppy drive, so I rebooted and used the Debian CD to
And thus we see that Abhay Watwe said, :
Hi:
Hi Abhay,
I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard
drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I
installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. The machine
does not have a
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To: debian-user
Subject: Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot
And thus we see that Abhay Watwe said, :
Hi:
Hi Abhay,
I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first
hard
drive. I added a second hard drive and installed
Hi:
I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first
hard
drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I
installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. The
machine
does not have a floppy drive, so I rebooted and used the Debian CD to
Abhay Watwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a Dell Dimension 8300 which came preloaded with XP on the first hard
drive. I added a second hard drive and installed Debian Woody on it. I
installed LILO with MBR on /dev/hdb1 which is my / partition. The machine
does not have a floppy drive,
Abhay Watwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Harshwardhan/All:
I made a mistake in my original message. I used the following command to
make linux.bin
dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/linux.bin bs=512 count=1
So I did use the right partition in the command. I still get the same
error.
Abhay
I used
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