Dual booting redhat and XP question

[Herta Van den Eynde]

On 02/03/07, Dave Martini 1 <martini1 at llnl.gov> wrote:
> I have a Dell with a single 73 gig disk drive I want to have XP and RHEL
> 4 on it.
>
> My question is when I install XP first how do I setup the partitioning?
> I've read where the first
> 1024 cylinders should be FAT32 and this will be for XP of up to 6GB. Is
> this required or can I setup each partion as
> NTFS?
>
> Does the Linux boot partition have to be in the first 1024 cylinders?
> Will an NFTS partition be able to load the Linux boot loader?
>
> How sould I edit my grub.conf so that I can pick which OS I want to boot?
>
> Thank You
> Dave Maritni
> LLNL

Not quite the same, but probably similar enough:

I recently installed a dual boot Dell Inspiron 6400 (XP + Fedore Core
6).  The laptop came with a 80 GB disk.  I used 20 GB fo install XP in
an NTFS filesystem, and gave the rest to linux:
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2611    20972826    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            2612        5222    20972857+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3            5223        6527    10482412+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4            6528        9729    25720065    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            6528        6658     1052226   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6            6659        9729    24667776   83  Linux

I first installed XP, then Fedora.  The Fedora install detected an
"other OS" in the MBR, so all I had to do was rename it 'Windows XP".

Kind regards,

Herta