[Techtalk] RE: [Newchix] W2k NTFS and RHL 7.0

[Debra]

I completely wiped the harddrive and installed XP
first. But instead of using the whole drive during the
installation (which is the default option), I created
a partition that used half the drive space, then
installed on that. (It lets you do this in 2000
installation as well).

Rebooted, then installed Mandrake 8.1, selected the
option "use free space" (which was the other half of
my drive) and let Mandrake set up my partitions for
Linux.  

Now when I boot, I get the Mandrake screen, but one of
my options to select is NT (XP was built on an NT
base, so I guess that's how Mandrake interprets it). I
select it and boot into XP quite nicely. 

Debra

--- Gretchen Tollefson <gretchen_t at myrealbox.com>
wrote:
> Being very new to this myself, I don't have all the
> answers.  However, it is
> possible to dual NTFS and ext2, I'm running Mandrake
> 8.1 and Windows XP.
> All I did was install Mandrake (to partition and
> practice), then installed
> Windows, then reinstalled Mandrake.  On the second
> install, I had LILO
> install to the MBR and that took care of Windows
> wanting to take over the
> bootloader.  I'm not sure if Windows 2000 will take
> over again, I've heard
> of that happening, but it doesn't with XP.
> 
> Anyway, that's how I took care of it.
> Gretchen
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: newchix-admin at linuxchix.org
> [mailto:newchix-admin at linuxchix.org]On
> Behalf Of phiber2001
>   Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 1:04 PM
>   To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
>   Cc: newchix at linuxchix.org
>   Subject: [Newchix] W2k NTFS and RHL 7.0
> 
> 
>   Well, according to
> http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/lilo.html
> 
>   I tried to dual boot RedHat Linux 7.0 along with
> Windows 2000 Professional
> NTFS. Everything went absolutely fine. When I reboot
> it gives two options as
> Windows 2000 and Linux. But when I want to boot from
> linux the screen goes
> blank with only a cursor blinking and nothing
> happens. But when I go for the
> option of booting for Win2000, windows boots fine.
> Then again when I put the
> LILO Floppy it starts Linux Loader from the floppy.
> But all I want is to
> boot from the HDD according to the
>   above-mentioned  link. But I don't know what
> mistake I made. Or it is that
> I simply can't dual boot NTFS and ext2.
> 
>   My lilo.conf looks like this:
> 
>   boot=/dev/hda8
>   map=/boot/map
>   install=/boot/boot.b
>   prompt
>   timeout=50
> 
>   message=/boot/message
>   linear
>   default=dos
> 
>   image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
>   label=linux
>   read-only
>   root=/dev/hda8
> 
>   other=/dev/hda1
>   label=windows2000
> 
>   My boot.ini looks like this:
> 
>   [Boot Loader]
>   Timeout=5
>   Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
>   [Operating Systems]
>  
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft
>   Windows 2000
>   Professional" /fastdetect
>   c:\bootsect.lnx = "Linux"
> 
>   Well, I also have a file named vmlinuz in c:\. I
> tried the whole process
> with removing the vmlinuz file from c:\.
> 
>   Any help from anyone on how to fix this would be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
>   Thanks a million.
> 
> 


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