Dual Booting with XP

BlueRoo · n00b Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 8 Location: Kentucky

I seem to be having problems getting XP to dual boot with gentoo. I have followed the installation instructions for grub and I am still having problems. On a prior install of gentoo, things worked just fine, but now I keep getting the message of problems with hal.dll. Even though I can't get XP to load with grub I can get it load using Acronis OS selector, so it is possible. Here is my grub.conf

hackertype · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 32

Have you tried "chainloader (hd0,0)+1" instead of "chainloader +1" ?

Stieltje · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2003 12:21 am Post subject:

You might want to try out Lilo, nothing flashy, just a workhorse doing its job!

anyway, how interesting can it be to boot a PC

*how to configure Lilo is described in the installation guide on this site*
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BlueRoo · n00b Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 8 Location: Kentucky

Yes I did try (hd0,0)+chainloader first, didn't work. I tried to use Lilo at first, but I didn't have any luck with it. During bootup I got L_ and I couldn't get any further than that.

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puggy · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2003 8:20 am Post subject:

I'm installing gentoo on a friends machine and keep getting this exact same error. The hal.dll thing sounds like something windows is looking for. I can't understand it. Any more ideas?

Cheers.
Puggy
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Milamber · n00b Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 72 Location: Richmond, VA

haggi · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 8:08 pm Post subject:

hi,

puggy · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 8:21 pm Post subject:

pi314 · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 8:30 pm Post subject:

maybe you try to boot windows with the install-cd into recovery mode and then try to fix the mbr

this always worked fine when there was a problem with my old SuSE and winME
... oh, yes, I had to reinstall LILO after that and yes it worked with winME, with XP there was no problem yet, so I didn't try

I'm not realy shure anymore but I think I installed GRUB on (hd0) and XP is on (hd0,0) and everything is working fine so far

haggi · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 8:37 pm Post subject:

thx, that are bad news for me, because i backed up my complety configured WindowsXP before in a Norton Ghost image, so that i do not have to completly re-install it....

I'll then have to find some Windows experts, and let you know if i found a solution.
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haggi · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 8:38 pm Post subject:

pi314 · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 8:58 pm Post subject:

on winME it was a simple "fdisk /mbr" or something like this but I think this has been changed with XP.

... but it shouldn't be too hard finding some info about this -> good luck :wink:

EDIT:
found this topic
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=75329
maybe it'll help you a bit

Ch1lly · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 38

In windows XP you have to use the installation CD to go into the recovery console than you can apply the "fixmbr" command to fix your MBR and you should be able to boot into Windows XP again.

puggy · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 10:09 pm Post subject:

dirtboy · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 3:23 am Post subject:

Depends. A lot of people on these forums have been installing Grub and Lilo on the boot sector of the harddrive thinking that they were installing in the MBR. This may be a little late for you, but the commands in Windows for fixing misinstalled boot loaders are fixmbr for loaders in the MBR and fixboot for loaders in the bootsector.

charliedontsurf · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2002 Posts: 13 Location: Austin, TX

Is it just me (don't answer), or is all this boot stuff incredibly rediculously over-complicated? I'm not a big believer in gui's, but if there's ever a problem that needed one, this is it.

Anyway, I boot my gentoo from a floppy. My bzImage is on the hard drive. I just put the bootloader (I hate all this boot lingo; did I get that correct?) on the floppy.

floppy in = gentoo
floppy out = winxp

Just an idea. I don't understand why more people don't do this. I've torn my hair out trying to get dual (and triple) boots to work in the past and then there's the problem of having MS stomp whatever you may have had on the MBR of hda. Why bother?

charliedontsurf · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2002 Posts: 13 Location: Austin, TX

BTW, I lived in Starkville for a year. Dude, you gotta get outa there.

dirtboy · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 3:41 am Post subject:

I've lived here for 6 years... and you are right. About the boot loaders, they are only complicated because they are capable of being configured. Since you can put Linux anywhere (or any opsys for that matter), there are several little switches and options you have to set. Unlike Windows, which goes on the first drive on the first partition always every time.

lotusvale · Guru Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 339 Location: Canada

have you tried searching on google?
here's one.
and here's to download hal.dll
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ScorpionOne · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 10:25 am Post subject:

well, the problem is - win xp doesn't like any bootloaders like grub oder lilo.
just try this:

copy your bootblock (first 512byte from yout bootdisk) using dd to an file (!!!) on the disk, win xp is installed - the easiest way is to copy it in the root directroy from win.
when edit the boot.ini from win xp (c:\boot.ini).
sorry, but the hole instruction i can't remember exactly - but ask google

good luck
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