Boot CD and Booting with XP:

[Otto Haliburton]

Actually, it is quite simple.  Install windows first, it will write its
bootloader into the mbr, then install fcx and it should figure out what to
do for dual booting.  Somehow you made a mistake.  Now you need to recover.
First use your windows installation to install the windows bootloader again.
Then use the 1st disk of the fedora set to boot into rescue mode and do a
grub-install.  You can search redhat to find the HOWTO for this.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael Yanowitz
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 1:14 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> 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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