Re: Boot problem

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From: m.marien (mm)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:44:57 -0600

"Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "m.marien" <mm AT RiverCityCanada DOT com> wrote in message
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>> >
>>> It is a good recommendation you give me to use GRUB. I do not know that
>>> boot loader, but I can certainly test it.
>>>
>>
>> GRUB is the boot manager for many Linux distros. So if you install Linux,
>> it will probably install GRUB as it's boot manager.
>>
>> There also is a way to have the Windows boot manager handle booting of
>> your Linux or Unix installations. I have no experience there other than
>> seeing it mentioned.
>
> Oh, yes, I can recall now. I have never tried GRUB by itself without Xosl.
> In any case, my main problem is to get the server 2003 to boot. GRUB will
> not do it for me, nor Xosl. Perhaps I will find out a way out somehow.
>

Have you tried to put back the line in the XP boot.ini file ? This should at
least get you back to where you started. Another thing you can try is a
repair. Boot from the Win2003 CD and choose to install. It will find the old
install of 2003 and ask if you want to update it. When you finish you will
have to apply all the updates, but all the configuration file and any
software you previously installed will be intact.

This will put the boot back on the XP partition!

One more suggestion, except this may be how you got into trouble the first
time. Use your boot manager to hide the XP partition. You can use Partition
Magic or something else to do that if your boot manager won't. Win2003 won't
be able to see the first partition now, but it will still be there. Use the
recovery method I described above to reinstall Win2003. You might also be
able to just use the Repair when you boot from the CD.

Once you have the Win2003 working properly, unhide the XP partition. Chances
are you will still be able to boot from the Win2003 partition. However, you
won't be able to boot from the XP partition. You will have to make it active
with fdisk or something. When the XP partition is active it will boot from
there. When the Win2003 partition is active it will boot from there.

However, you can see that this is not an easy way to dual boot.

I would suggest that you fix the system to boot from the XP partition. When
you add Linux you will have the choice to boot Linux or Windows. When you
boot windows, you will have a choice of XP for 2003 Server. Why argue with
the standard way of doing things.

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