WinXP+Linux on separate HDs

[joshmiao]

Hi,

I have an existing WinXP installation on my HD right now, I wanted to go out and get another hard drive which I plan to install Linux on.

And from reading on these forums, grub is the best way to go in senses of a boot manager?

Can someone tell me how I'd generally set this up, and how I'd set it up in grub?

THanks!

- josh

[Goran]

Hi. Check this out : http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials...th-GRUB-1.html

Hope it helps

[stevenchin]

Hi. Check this out : http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials...th-GRUB-1.html

Hope it helps

Hi

Does the above also includes Win XP also?

I had install Win XP as NTFS in Primary Partition and then had another partition for Fedora, however everytime, it can only boot into Fedora or Win XP only.

I even installed Boot Magic but it does not work also.

[systempilot]

What are you trying to do? The line:

everytime, it can only boot into Fedora or Win XP only.

You can only boot one OS at a time... Not both. Does GRUB give you the option of Win XP or Fedora? If your saying Win XP doesn't show up as an option in GRUB, then the configuration for grub will have to be altered to include Win XP

[stevenchin]

What are you trying to do? The line:

everytime, it can only boot into Fedora or Win XP only.

You can only boot one OS at a time... Not both. Does GRUB give you the option of Win XP or Fedora? If your saying Win XP doesn't show up as an option in GRUB, then the configuration for grub will have to be altered to include Win XP

Sorry for that , what I mean is that I can 'either' boot into Fedora (after I installled Fedora after XP is installed) or only XP (when there is no Fedora installed)

What entries do I need to add in for the grub.conf ?

Is it like

booting 'XPr'
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

[HOUSCOUS]

Use the following as an example.

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd0,2)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=-1
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
password --md5 $1$2uiyNJR.$qCrpZABgYo.zFVz5pG2Xq0
title Fedora Core 2
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7-1.494.2.2 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.img
title FreeBSD
        rootnoverify (hd0,1)
        chainloader +1
title Windows XP
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1

[stevenchin]

Use the following as an example.

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd0,2)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=-1
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
password --md5 $1$2uiyNJR.$qCrpZABgYo.zFVz5pG2Xq0
title Fedora Core 2
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7-1.494.2.2 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.img
title FreeBSD
        rootnoverify (hd0,1)
        chainloader +1
title Windows XP
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1

I did had teh following :

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

But the GRUB boot menu does not dipslay it. Only Fedora is displayed.

[HOUSCOUS]

And your menu.lst also has the same entry?

[stevenchin]

And your menu.lst also has the same entry?

Well after I did an reinstall again, now I can have dual boot successfully.

[HOUSCOUS]

Congrats!