Fedora Core 2 and WinXP dual boot

[Beri, Rohit]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 07:55, Rohit Beri wrote:
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>>Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 19:08, Beri, Rohit wrote:
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>>>>I have read a few post on how this is done and few things one needs to look out for... In my situation I have 2 hdd for my dell latitude, one running WinXP and the other Fedora Core 2, I was swapping HDD before. 
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>>>>Just yesterday I bought a media bay so I can plug fedora Core 2 as a second hdd. I was wonderding how to configure without formatting fedora core hdd to be able to chose which OS i want to boot to when I start the machine.
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>>>>Any pointers ? 
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>>>There are a variety of ways of achieving this, some using the XP
>>>bootloader to load grub (e.g. http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) and
>>>some using grub to load the XP bootloader (e.g.
>>>http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html). I've used
>>>both methods and there's not a lot to choose between them. Given that
>>>your machine already has XP as the default OS set up though, I'd be
>>>inclined to go for the first one, adding Linux as an additional OS on
>>>the XP boot menu (the menu doesn't show by default if you only have XP
>>>installed). You need to install grub or lilo on one of your linux
>>>partitions (conventionally the root partition, e.g. /dev/hdb1) and then
>>>have bootpart.exe add an entry to your c:\boot.ini to load up linux from
>>>that partition.
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>>>Paul.
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>>Thanks for the pointer. I am going to work on this over the weekend. 
>>Will try to post my discoveries...
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>One thing to bear in mind is that, since you were swapping out hard
>disks to switch between OSes before, your FC2 install will have been on
>"hda", the first hard disk, but with the drive attached as a second
>drive, it'll be "hdb" (or hdc, or hdd, depending on your cabling and
>jumper selection). If your /etc/fstab mounts filesystems using the
>"LABEL=" technique (it probably does), this won't matter as the kernel
>will still find your filesystems, but any references to /dev/hda in
>there will need changing to /dev/hdb.
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>Paul.
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Paul:

Took a little longer to reply. But hey I got the dual boot to work 
without re-installing any OS.... I played a lot with the bootloader on 
NT but I guess its micro$oft. Here's what I changed on grub.conf and it 
works like a charm.

title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
chainloader +1

Thanks,

-B