dual boot linux and windows xp

[James Thorpe]

Andrew Breen wrote:

>Hi - I was wondering if anyone could help me out on this.  I have
>installed Fedora on a second hard drive so that I could have the
>option of running Windows or Linux when I boot up.  I tried using
>bootpart to edit the NTLDR to boot linux, but I'm probably doing
>something wrong, because Linux fails to boot at all.  It comes up with
>a message that linux cannot be found.  Is there anybody that knows
>what to do to help me?  Thanks!
>-Andrew
>
>  
>
I did this recently and was having problems dual booting, luckily a 
thread appeared on here with just the right answer.  Linux is on my 
second drive, which I told the bios to boot to, rather than the first 
one, then the following post from Sasa finally got me working.
James.


Try the following change in your grub.conf:
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default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Pingo Linux
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-xxx ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
    initrd /initrd-xxx.img
title Windows XP Pro
    map (hd0) (hd1)
       map (hd1) (hd0)
    rootnoverify (hd1,0)
    chainloader +1
    makeactive
    boot
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It works nice for me.

Sasa