dualboot redhat 7.3 and Vista

[fenny]

i recently installed redhat 7.3 as a dualboot with Windows Vista and the Grub bootloader does not register Vista as and OS. during the install i decided to leave the existing partitions alone and used the remaining free disk space to install the redhat. how do i make the bootloader recognize the Vista OS or do i simply have to uninstall the redhat?

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Boot up RedHat and log in as root. Open /boot/grub/grub.conf file. Add this code at the end of file.

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

Save file and reboot. In case it doesn't work, execute fdisk -l command and post output here.

[fenny]

i am extremely new to Linux and when i enter the startx command to enter gnome i get error message and i'm not sure how to append the command s you gave me to the end of that file.

[devils casper]

Log in as root and execute this

nano /boot/grub/grub.conf

This will open grub.conf file in nano editor. Add Windows Code at the end of file and Press Ctrl+X, Y and Hit Enter key.
Reboot machine. If it doesn't work, log in as root again and execute fdisk -l command. Post output here.


* Is there any particular reason for RH7.8? Do you know that its obsolete and doesn't support Latest hardware?
I would suggest you to install Fedora 7 or CentOS. Both are based on RedHat and free to download.

[fenny]

well thanx for all your help i had already discovered the vi command and looke through the help section to figure out how to edit then i entered the code you gave me then i had to figure out how to save that file when all was done and i rebooted the vista boot took me to a disk check screen so i change the partition in the code to (hd0,1) and viola it worked ao again thanks for all ur help. oh and the redhat 7.3 is what i have to do my labs with.......suck huh cause i couldnt dual boot with my raid drives i havnt learned that yet, but soon

[devils casper]

Glad to help you.