It might, but I don't know. Haven't tried it. I'm curious, what advantage does GRUB have over Lilo?
Lateer, Steven On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Mingle, Michael wrote: > Great tip but why doesnt this work with GRUB? > > Michael > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Whatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 4:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Dual boot with WinXP > > > Hi all, > > I have been having fun this weekend. I upgraded my RH 7.1 server to RH8. > I also decided to set up dual boot on my Windows XP box. I have 40GB > and 120GB HDs on the WinXP system. I took 15GB from each disk to use with > Linux. I put /boot, /, /usr, and /var at the front of the 120GB. And set > up a 15GB /tmp and a 1GB swap space on the 40GB drive. I set up such a > large /tmp because I am going to experiment with caturing TV programs with > my WinTV tuner card. /home is going to be NFS mounted. I used Partition > Magic 8, yes PM8, to resize and creat partitons. PM8 supports ext3 file > systems. The WinXP partitions are NTFS. > > I was amazed that I could still use same the trick to set up dual booting > under WinXP that I used with WinNT 4.0 and Slackware 3.0 back in the mid > 90's. I told the installer to put the boot loader, lilo, in the first > sector of the boot partiton (/boot). I used Disk Droid to set up the > mount points. And I created the boot floppy. > > The following was done to set up the dual boot. > > 1) After installing, reboot and start RH8 using the boot floppy. > > 2) After logging in as root, run 'df -h' to see which device is tied to > /boot. > > 3) Typed the following command: > > # dd if=/dev/hdb2 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 > > 4) Mount a msdos floppy disk: > > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > > 5) Copy the bootsect.lnx to the floppy. Optionally, unmount the floppy. > > 6) Remove any floppies and reboot into WinXP. > > 7) Copy A:\bootsect.lnx to C:\bootsect.lnx > > 8) Set the atributes to the boot.ini in a Dos window: > > C:\> attrib -r -s -h boot.ini > > 9) Add the following line to the file C:\boot.ini: > > C:\bootsect.lnx="Red Hat Linux 8.0" > > 10) Reset the boot.ini atributes. > > C:\> attrib +r +s +h boot.ini > > You may want to do the same for the bootsect.lnx file. > > 11) You may need to set the time delay the boot menu will stay on the > screen. I set it for 10 seconds. > > Now reboot and you will get the option to boot Windows XP or Linux. > This, of course, works for WinNT and Win2k. No extra boot manager like > System Commander or BootMagic is needed. > > I hope I didn't bore anyone with this. BTW, I did not come up with this > idea. I found a post on this subject on USENET back in the mid 90's. > Like I said before, I am amazed this technique still works. The only > downside is if you reinstall lilo, you need to recreate the bootsect.lnx > file. > > Later, > Steven > -- ___ ____________ <<<((__O\ (__<>___<>__ \ ____ Don't get rattled by Steven Whatley \ \_(__<>___<>__)\O\_/O___>-< what I say. It's just [EMAIL PROTECTED] \O__<>___<>___<>)\___/ my opinion. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
