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redpotatoes
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 Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 5:35 pm Post subject: dual boot with windows XP |
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I have Windows xp installed on my first hard drive and gentoo on my second hard drive i need to know the good configuration of both lilo and grub for those. I have my XP on Hda (Hd0,0) and my gentoo on my Hdc(hd1,0), what would be the proper configuration for that ?? thx
ps: do I have to change something in my boot.ini ?? |
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Earthwings
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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| redpotatoes wrote: | | ps: do I have to change something in my boot.ini ?? |
If youre using Grub as a System loader you dont need to change anything in you boot.ini, instead do something like (change to fit your system needs):
Follow the steps on the documentation.
| Code: | judith root # nano /boot/grub/grub.conf
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Gentoo Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/<your kernel image name> root=<your root partition i.e. /dev/hdc5>
title Windoze XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1 |
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redpotatoes
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I did try myself but it didnt work |
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Earthwings
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| post what you tried, someone will help |
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Felgerkarb
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I have Windows xp installed on my first hard drive and gentoo on my second hard drive |
How about switching the hard drive order? That's what I did, so I could use grub, instead of modifying the Windows boot loader....once I installed Windows (which is not bright enough to install itself onto anything but the 'first' drive) I simply swapped the connections of the drives to the motherboard, and everything works fine! I use a basic grub.conf, that you can find on the links listed in previous posts and the forum HOWTO. |
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dvc5
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:40 am Post subject: |
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Felgerkarb had a good suggestion. Generally I've found it safer to setup the drives where the Linux drive is the boot drive and not touch the windows drive at all (memories of "fixboot" come to mind). Unfortunately, grub is a little difficult to configure for booting Windows partitions that are not on the same drive.
For my desktop, I had the following configuration:
hd0=gentoo
hd1=XP
hd2=media drive
In order to get Grub (installed on hd0) to boot XP (installed on hd1), you'll need to do drive mapping in your grub.conf. As I understand it (someone please correct me if I'm wrong), drive mapping makes windows think it's the boot drive when grub calls it. Here is the Windows XP section of my grub.conf:
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title=Windows XP Pro
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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Note the "rootnoverify (hd1,0)" points to your real Windoze boot partition, not the "mapped" one we've created. Hopefully this is helpful. I had a lot of trouble getting my desktop to dualboot in the beginning also.
-Loz |
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georgebastille
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, I have the same configuration, winxp on hd1 and gentoo on hd2. I tried messing around with grub and lilo and could not get a suitable working machine. I found a program on the internet called bootpart http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm if you run this from a cmd window in xp it will list all your partitions. Then if you type bootpart (no of linux boot partition) c:\filename.bin Gentoo Linux it will create a small file in the c:\ and add a option to the xp loader that allows you to boot Gentoo
the exact command i used for your reference is
bootpart 5 c:\gentoo.bin Gentoo Linux
then if you install grub on hd2 and remove all references to windows in grub.conf it should work like a charm 
hope this helps |
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ZeroPhile
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:15 am Post subject: Dual Boot XP on 2 drives |
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lozdvc5: you are awesome man.... That post with the mapping of the drives fixed me right up. Thanks man.. I have been trying to get this d*mn dual boot to work for weeks. Changing the MBR. Going into debug to edit the drive and all kinds of sh|t. Right on.... Ya get mad props man...
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dvc5
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 9:08 am Post subject: Re: Dual Boot XP on 2 drives |
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| ZeroPhile wrote: | | lozdvc5: you are awesome man.... That post with the mapping of the drives fixed me right up. Thanks man.. I have been trying to get this d*mn dual boot to work for weeks. Changing the MBR. Going into debug to edit the drive and all kinds of sh|t. Right on.... Ya get mad props man... |
Anytime. This problem hits home with me 'cause I spent so much time trying to get dualbooting working on my desktop. It may wind up being more complicated in the end, but I think this method of having a "linux-only" drive and a "windows-only" drive is the best way to dual boot. It ensures that each OS can only f*ck with it's own drive.
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linux_girl
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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I setuped gentoo first. And it work nicely.
Then i tryed to setup Win2K. But when win2k setup reboot (its first reboot) i cant make windows (dev/hda1) boot from lilo's prompt to continues it's (windows) setup.
I want to setup my win2k. Any help will be usefull.
NB:i have the probs with winXP
My Disk Layout
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>fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 158816.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 158816 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 19377 9765976+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 19378 158816 70277256 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 19378 19456 39784+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 19457 23332 1953472+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 23333 24302 488848+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda8 24303 35929 5859976+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 35930 43680 3906472+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 43681 55307 5859976+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda11 55308 74684 9765976+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda12 74685 158816 42402496+ 83 Linux
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My fstab:
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>cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat rw,user,users,uid=1000,gid=100,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda5 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda6 / reiserfs noatime,notail 0 1
/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda8 /usr reiserfs noatime,notail 0 1
/dev/hda9 /opt reiserfs noatime,notail 0 1
/dev/hda10 /var reiserfs noatime,notail 0 1
/dev/hda11 /mnt/tmp reiserfs noatime,notail 0 1
/dev/hda12 /home reiserfs noatime,notail 0 1
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/dvd iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/graveur iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noatime,users,noauto,rw 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod vfat noauto,user,users,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
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My lilo.conf
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>cat /etc/lilo.conf
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/lilo/files/lilo.conf,v 1.4 2003/07/17 21:10:26 azarah Exp $
# Author: Ultanium
#
# Start LILO global section
#
# Faster, but won't work on all systems:
#compact
# Should work for most systems, and do not have the sector limit:
lba32
# If lba32 do not work, use linear:
#linear
# MBR to install LILO to:
boot = /dev/hda
map = /boot/System.map
# If you are having problems booting from a hardware raid-array
# or have a unusual setup, try this:
#disk=/dev/ataraid/disc0/disc bios=0x80 # see this as the first BIOS disk
#disk=/dev/sda bios=0x81 # see this as the second BIOS disk
#disk=/dev/hda bios=0x82 # see this as the third BIOS disk
# Here you can select the secondary loader to install. A few
# examples is:
#
# boot-text.b
# boot-menu.b
# boot-bmp.b
#
install = /boot/boot-menu.b # Note that for lilo-22.5.5 or later you
# do not need boot-{text,menu,bmp}.b in
# /boot, as they are linked into the lilo
# binary.
menu-scheme=Wb
bitmap=/boot/sarge.bmp
prompt
# If you always want to see the prompt with a 15 second timeout:
timeout=150
delay = 50
vga =ext
default=kern2.6.3
#
# End LILO global section
#
#
# Linux bootable partition config begins
#
image =/boot/kernel-2.6.3
root=/dev/hda6
read-only
vga=0x31A
label=kern2.6.3
#
# Linux bootable partition config ends
#
#
# DOS bootable partition config begins
#
other = /dev/hda1
#other = /devices/discs/disc0/part1
label = WindowsXp
table = /dev/hda
#
# DOS bootable partition config ends
#
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i think it is because windows doesnt leave enghout file before rebooting to alow win xp to boots
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dvc5
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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You might want to try overriding the lilo bootloader when you install windows, and then just reinstall lilo after windows is done. Also, I've found it easier to have windows setup at the end of the drive, but that might not be possible in your case.
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linux_girl
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| lozdvc5 wrote: | | You might want to try overriding the lilo bootloader when you install windows, and then just reinstall lilo after windows is done. Also, I've found it easier to have windows setup at the end of the drive, but that might not be possible in your case. |
Windows overide it some time. And somes not.
reinstaling lilo is easy but unable to lunche windows.
when windows setup overide the mbr i get message O.S not found after bios message
My Hard drive is about 80 GB but the bios says its about 81 GB
I used fdisk & mkfs.vfat -F 32 to make the /dev/hda1 (for windows) look at my first post. Couls it be a hard drive isue ?
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ZeroPhile
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| Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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I recently upgraded to SATA drives. 2x 80Gb Seagates
I had problems getting the bootloader Grub to start after installation of Gentoo but, I figured it out by putting sda# in the fstab and grub.conf after about 6 reboots. However, now I cant dual-boot into my WinXP drive which is sdb1... I tried mapping the drives in grub like I did when I was using UATA with map (hd#,#) map (hd#,#) etc..... but, it doesn't seem top work. Anyone have any ideas?
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| Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:00 am Post subject: |
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| pbx06 wrote: | | lozdvc5 wrote: | | You might want to try overriding the lilo bootloader when you install windows, and then just reinstall lilo after windows is done. Also, I've found it easier to have windows setup at the end of the drive, but that might not be possible in your case. |
Windows overide it some time. And somes not.
reinstaling lilo is easy but unable to lunche windows.
when windows setup overide the mbr i get message O.S not found after bios message
My Hard drive is about 80 GB but the bios says its about 81 GB
I used fdisk & mkfs.vfat -F 32 to make the /dev/hda1 (for windows) look at my first post. Couls it be a hard drive isue ? |
i finaly solved my isues : fdisk choosed a random disk geometry which is a very bad and cause lilo to unable to start winXP
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dvc5
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| Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:02 am Post subject: |
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| pbx06 wrote: | | pbx06 wrote: | | lozdvc5 wrote: | | You might want to try overriding the lilo bootloader when you install windows, and then just reinstall lilo after windows is done. Also, I've found it easier to have windows setup at the end of the drive, but that might not be possible in your case. |
Windows overide it some time. And somes not.
reinstaling lilo is easy but unable to lunche windows.
when windows setup overide the mbr i get message O.S not found after bios message
My Hard drive is about 80 GB but the bios says its about 81 GB
I used fdisk & mkfs.vfat -F 32 to make the /dev/hda1 (for windows) look at my first post. Couls it be a hard drive isue ? |
i finaly solved my isues : fdisk choosed a random disk geometry which is a very bad and cause lilo to unable to start winXP |
Sorry I'm late to respond. That sounds like a weird problem you had. Congratulations on figuring it out.
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Just a Hello...
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| Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:34 am Post subject: Thanks |
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dvc5 -
Your suggestion was insanely helpful!
Gentoo forums rock! |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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dvc5,
Your suggestion was most helpful for me. I couldn't get this working for some time. Now all is good.
Thanks! |
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