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Old 09-03-2007   #1 (permalink)
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dualboot redhat 7.3 and Vista
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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Log in as root and execute this
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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.
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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
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