Dual Booting Linux and XP

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Thursday 24 June 2004 02:35 pm, rahul b jain cs student wrote:
> But how do I edit grub / lilo ( I am using lilo) as I am not being able to
> boot into linux. I also dont have a floppy drive to boot from a bootable
> floppy. During my installation, I had selected linux as my default boot.
>
> I also tried upgrading linux after installation, but it didnt update the
> lilo boot options. Plz let me know.

LILO is fine too. 
Use the Redhat Disk 1 CD to boot, at the prompt type 'Linux rescue'. Now you 
get a shell, then:

1. Go to /mnt and make a new directory 
mkdir realroot
2. mount the / partition of your linux installation to that directory:
mount /dev/hdaX /mnt/realroot 

where X is the partition niumber, assuming it's in /dev/hda

3. Change the root to that
chroot /mnt/realroot

4. Now your / is on the real root partition of the linux installation. Edit 
/etc/lilo.conf as necessary, then run 
/sbin/lilo

exit the shell, reboot, you should see LILO on boot.

RDB


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Reuben D. Budiardja
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