dual boot XP with Fedora Core 4 question

[craft-tech]

so i figured out what i did wrong.

in the grub boot loader i had to add
root (hd0,hd1)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

that seemed to fixthe problem and i can boot to windows, now my problem is it doesn't save those settings so i have to enter that in the GRUB loader. how do i save those settings? stupid question i know but it will not save and i can not find a 'save' setting anywhere. thanks for the help.

[craft-tech]

ok well i figured it out myself so i guess this thread can be deleted thanks to all that helped me

[techieMoe]

that seemed to fixthe problem and i can boot to windows, now my problem is it doesn't save those settings so i have to enter that in the GRUB loader. how do i save those settings? stupid question i know but it will not save and i can not find a 'save' setting anywhere. thanks for the help.

To save changes you make at boot, you'll need to write them down and add them to the /boot/menu.lst file if I remember correctly.

[craft-tech]

i actually just booted in linux and made the changes straight tothe gub.conf file, that seemed to work fine

[techieMoe]

i actually just booted in linux and made the changes straight tothe gub.conf file, that seemed to work fine

Ah. grub.conf. One of those files. Haha.

[craft-tech]

heheh thank you though

[tlgates]

I am trying to set up a dual boot with windows xp and fedora core 4 on my laptop. When I go in to partition the drive with windows cd inserted, I set up 500 mb for /boot on first partition, 15000 mb for fedora core on second partition, and the rest 60 gb for windows. I then select drive 60 gb's to install windows and it automatically install on c: drive where I had partition /boot to be installed.

In short, how do I install the 2 os with dual boot on one hard drive.

tracy

[devils casper]

Hi tlgates !!

install windows first. during installation, create drives C D E etc... and leave some 'Unpartitioned/free space'.
now install Linux, in partition management section, select "unpartitioned/free space for installation". installer will create/format partitions itself.

nothing to do in 'Boot Loader' section. just select default options.
Dual Boot is default in all distors. you will have dual boot.





casper