Re: Please help with XP Professional dual boot

From: Michael Stevens (mstevens_at_bogusmvps.org)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:34:43 -0800

linuxquestion@yahoo.com wrote:
> "Michael Stevens" <mstevens@bogusmvps.org> wrote in message
> news:<OnZZiI21EHA.2824@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...
>> linuxquestion@yahoo.com wrote:
>>> Dear experts,
>>>
>>> I have succeed at this before, but I am really stumped
>>> now, so I hope that someone will be able to tell me
>>> the secret to fix this.
>>>
>>>
>>> Computer:
>>> Dell 4550. XP Professional.
>>> Dual hard drives.
>>> Primary, C: XP only 80 gigs.
>>> Secondary. For Redhat 2.1 120 gigs
>>> First partition is extended, then logical /boot
>>>
>>>
>>> Now here is something important. When I bought this
>>> machine, the primary/only hard drive had two
>>> partitions in it. The first partition had no drive
>>> letter assigned and was about 30 megs. It had hardware
>>> diagnosis software, etc on it. The second partition was
>>> the C: drive. 80 gigs. I was able to get this to
>>> dual boot with grub, by overwriting the MBR. That
>>> actually worked quite well.
>>
>> You don't need the 30 gig partition. Format the drives with one or
>> more partitions large enough for installing the OS.
>> Install XP to the primary hard drive.
>> Then install Redhat placing Grub on the second hard drive with
>> Redhat. Personally, I would use the boot floppy method for booting
>> Redhat and leave the XP bootloader intact. Makes it easier if you
>> need to reinstall either OS.
>
>
> All that was done successfully before Mike.
>
> I'm posting, because what I did previously, is not successful
> this time.
>
> You have to read to the end to see the current symptoms.
>
> The small partition was 30 megs, not gigs. The machine was shipped
> to me that way.

The gigs was a typo, and you changed the hard drives so why do you need or
is it necessary to have the 30 meg partition. I don't think you tried what I
suggested. 

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