Re: Please help with XP Professional dual boot

linuxquestion_at_yahoo.com
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: 1 Dec 2004 16:37:57 -0800

Actually ... Yes, I did try what you suggested.

I had actually done everything that you suggested even before I
made the first posting. As detailed in the post.

Does anyone have any ideas, based on the detail that I have given?

"Michael Stevens" <mstevens@bogusmvps.org> wrote in message news:<eBP3Ow81EHA.3616@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>...
> 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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