Re: Partitioning for XP & Linux, How Much for What?

From: Arno Wagner (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: 8 Oct 2004 21:59:13 GMT

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:

>>FC2 uses Grub by default, and there was no option to boot Windows. It
>>was hosed. It's a documented fact that the 2.6 kernel has this
>>problem.

> I mis-spoke there. As I recall, Grub gave the option, but Windows
> would not boot.

O.K., then this was likely because the preconfigured Windows
boot optins were wrong. Solution:

- boot into grub bit not farther
- Go to grub shell.
- Tell it which partition is Windows:
    root (hd0,1)
  if on hda1, adjust if somewere else.
- Make the partition active (for some reason Windows still needs this):
    makeactive
- Tell Grub to use the chainloader:
   chainloader +1
- Boot:
   boot

This should bring Windows up o.k.. Also works with a Grub
boot-floppy. You can add the correct settings from Linux in the
/boot/grub/menu.lst file once you have figured them out.

An other possibility is that FC2 did damage in the partitioning
process. Still not a Linux or Kernel issue, but a problem of
FC2. That Linux is a great OS does not mean there are no broken
distros or installers.

Arno 

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