Boot CD and Booting with XP:

Zhang Lei zhl at nanjing-fnst.com
Wed Mar 9 00:56:26 UTC 2005


To create a boot CD,you may burn the fille "boot.iso"  in the 1st disk to a 
CDR.

Regards
Zhang Lei

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Yanowitz" <yanowitzmjy at yahoo.com>
To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 3:14 AM
Subject: Boot CD and Booting with XP:


> Hello:
>
>   I've got a new PC that came with XP installed. I
> added Red Hat Fedora. I have not been able to boot
> into Linux. The first time, I tried, I overwrote the MBR
> and couldn't boot into either.  The computer does not
> have a floppy drive, but I can boot off of a CD.
>   So my questions are thus:
>
> 1) How do I create a boot CD? (Do the instructions for
>    a boot floppy appy to CDs)?
>
> 2) I tried to update GRUB to boot off of something other
>    than the MBR but it wouldn't let me save the configuration
>   unless I changed the kernel. So how can I update GRUB to boot both XP 
> and Linux? Any advice:
>
> D:  Primary FAT32  3.5GB
> C:  Primary NTFS   48.8GB
> *   Primary  Linux Ext3  103MB
> *   Extended
> *   Logical   Linux Ext3  21.1GB
> *   Logical   Linux Swap 988MB
>
> 3) What is the best way to set this up for dual boot?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
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