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Configuring Multi Booting of WindowsXp and Red Hat Linux

Posted Date: 06 Sep 2008 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: Computer & Technology

Posted By: Aditya Gupta Member Level: Gold
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Instead of using 3rd party software for multibooting try out this :-

To avoid the problem of multibooting of windowsxp and linux on same hard drive,
don't install grub on MBR but install grub at the first sector of /boot partition.

Then configure installed windows xp (c:)on first primary ntfs partition hda1
then have d: and e: as logical fat32 drives hda5 & hda6 respectively
then have /boot partition on hda7, / partition on hda8 and swap as hda9.

After installing linux, booted from floppy and in root terminal type

mkdir /mnt/d:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/d:
dd if = /dev/hda7 bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/d:/linux.bin

then restart in windows, copy linux.bin image from d: to c:
add the following line to the c:\boot.ini file using notepad.
c:\linux.bin="red hat linux 9" and save it.

now restart the system u will see two option at boot
1. windows xp
2. red hat linux 9

now reinstalling of one operating system cannot interfere with the boot of the other operating system.

hope it helped

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