<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Otto Haliburton Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 11:42 AM To: 'Getting started with Red Hat Linux' Subject: RE: Dual booting Windows 2K with RH Enterprise Workstation v3 <div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'> -----Original Message----- From: redhat-install-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Silverrod Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 1:26 PM To: redhat-install-list@redhat.com Subject: Dual booting Windows 2K with RH Enterprise Workstation v3 Please ignore my last post without a subject line. It won’t work in the archives. I am trying to setup my computer to dual boot Windows 2000 (W 2K) with Red Hat Enterprise Workstation v3 (RHEW). I attempted to load RHEW on my SATA hard drive but it didn’t work because the hard drive controller card’s manufacture doesn’t have a software driver for RHEW yet. I tried to use a driver for a different version of Red Hat that they offered but it didn’t work either. I am now trying a different approach. I have installed a second, IDE hard drive, that I am sure RHEW will recognize. I partitioned the new hard drive per the instructions in the RHEW installation guide with Norton Partition Magic. I have loaded RHEW on that second hard drive with Disk Druid and it seemed to go well. I then modified the boot.ini file with the line “L:\Linux.bin=”linux””. “L:” is the primary partition on the new hard drive that I chose as the boot partition for RHEW. I then rebooted the computer during which during which a screen offered me the choice of booting W2K or Linux. I selected Linux and received the following error message. Windows 2000 could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows 2000 documentation about hardware and disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information. I can’t get into RHEW but W2K works well after a reboot and a different selection at the OS option screen. What have I done wrong? What other methods might work? Thank in advance for your help! Rod I have never done RHEW, but I have used RH9 etc. with dual boot, I always used GRUB or LILO. GRUB is now the preferred boot loader, my suggestion is that you boot the rescue disk into RHEW and do a grub-install and install GRUB in the MBR. The idea of a boot disk, rescue disk or install disk is new to me. I did make an installation disk (also called a boot disk by RHEW installation guide) after the installation by copying files from the RHEW disk one per instruction in the guide. I don’t know if I can get to GRUB that way but I will try it shortly. If I can, how do I get GRUB to modify the MBR? Remember that Linux can not find my SATA hard drive with W2K on it. Thank you for your help Rod </div> </div> </body> </html>