Windows XP and RH 9 bootloader

**mailboxhead** · 02-25-2004

I have two separate hard drives (hdc and hdd). hdc is my linux hd, which also happens to contain my bootloader (lilo). I installed Windows XP on my other hard drive about a week ago by disconnecting my linux hd and letting Windows do its thing. I reconnected the Windows hd as a slave and am trying to tell lilo where it is, but I've been having no luck. Here's a current copy of my lillo.conf:

Code:

&#40;global stuff&#41;
image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-8
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
read-only
append="hda=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/"

other=/dev/hdd1
label=WinXP
table=/dev/hdd

Any help would be appreciated.

**jasonlambert** · 02-25-2004

I cannot see anything obviously wrong with it, but i dont claim to be a lilo expert either.

If you cannot get the lilo thing working, i can suggest 2 alternatives:
1) Make your winXP harddrive the primary boot disk, you can edit your c:\boot.ini to give you linux in a list of operating system choices.

2) Install grub, and take a look at the Grub howto and also the dual booting howto

Sorry i cant be of more help.

Jason

**anand** · 03-04-2004

Hi,

have u tried XOSL ?
Its a very nice boot loader.
Install it in the c: drive of windows hdd (if fat32 and not ntfs)
You can then dual boot.
I have a similar setup.
Here goes:

Code:

hdc - hdc1= My fedora /
So i installed grub in "1st sector of root partition"
hdd - hdd1= My win c&#58;
I installed XOSL here

And the setup rocks.
Any time i re-install win98 (it crashes often

) I have linux untouched

I have XOSL reinstalled. That's it.
Bye.

**mosg** · 03-04-2004

May be u can create a linux-boot disk(3.5) when installing linux(or in linux) and after reintalletion any os(#win9

use your linux disk to load linux. I think it`s simpler...

**mailboxhead** · 03-04-2004

Thanks for all your help, everybody...turns out GRUB can do it, it just required a little decoding of various man pages and tutorials online...I'm not at home currently, but when I get home I'll post a copy of my final grub file, in case anybody has the same difficulty as me
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