Win2K(NTFS)/Redhat9 dual boot

Fr0g

Hi,
I have Redhat 9 installed on a hard disk I have put this HD in a Win2K(NTFS) box as a slave. How do I dual boot between the two?

I have quite a bit of Pc and MS OS knowledge but i am a total linux noob.

Fenster

Easiest way is to just run the Fedora installer and choose to use Grub as a bootloader.

aidan_walsh

You'll want to use your Red Hat 9 installation disks to install either the Lilo or Grub bootloaders. What these do is set up a menu that allows you to select what operating system you want to boot into.

I haven't used RH9, but the tool in the Fedora version is pretty intuitive, so take a gander but be sure to read up on it first...

Fenster

doodle_sketch wrote:

You'll want to use your Red Hat 9 installation disks to install either the Lilo or Grub bootloaders. What these do is set up a menu that allows you to select what operating system you want to boot into.

I haven't used RH9, but the tool in the Fedora version is pretty intuitive, so take a gander but be sure to read up on it first...

Fedora version is idiot proof, more or less. The only catch is that it doesn't like if you change your hard drive setup afterwards.

Fr0g

Is Fedora another linux distro?
Does it install the boot loader on the Win2K disk?
i.e will I get a menu item in boot.ini?

dahamsta

The Great Frog wrote:

Is Fedora another linux distro?

No, it's Red Hat after v9, kind of. See http://fedora.redhat.com/ .

flamegrill

depending on your boot loader choice, you can install the boot loader by booting the system from the install CD. Most RH type os's have a rescure mode and will search the disks for installs and put you into your live distro where you can edit your boot loader and add in an option for Windows and also what disk to put the boot loader onto - typically the primary disk.

For grub, at the end of menu.lst of grub.conf (/boot/grub/) put something like the following:

title Windows XP
root (hd0,0) # (the hd0 means the primary master disk, and ,0 is the first partition)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

then run grub-install and reboot, you'll need to make sure that the boot loader is installed on the primary disk also, all the options are there.

Paul

Fr0g

Thanks for all yur advice. I'll try this and let you know how I get on

Fr0g

Sorry guys I'm pretty much lost when it comes to finding my way around the linux file system

flamegrill
As I understand it I entered the details you provided into menu.1st using emacs(?) then ran grub-install. It returned the error install device not specified. this is apparently a command line option with the grub-install command
what am i doing wrong?

Rambo

The Great Frog wrote:

Sorry guys I'm pretty much lost when it comes to finding my way around the linux file system

flamegrill
As I understand it I entered the details you provided into menu.1st using emacs(?) then ran grub-install. It returned the error install device not specified. this is apparently a command line option with the grub-install command
what am i doing wrong?

grub-install INSTALL_DEVICE

The device name INSTALL_DEVICE is an OS device name or a GRUB device
name.

`grub-install' accepts the following options:

`--help'
Print a summary of the command-line options and exit.

`--version'
Print the version number of GRUB and exit.

`--force-lba'
Force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy BIOS. Use this option
only if your BIOS doesn't work in LBA mode even though it supports
LBA mode.

`--root-directory=DIR'
Install GRUB images under the directory DIR instead of the root
directory. This option is useful when you want to install GRUB
into a separate partition or a removable disk. Here is an example
when you have a separate "boot" partition which is mounted on
`/boot':

grub-install --root-directory=/boot '(hd0)'

`--grub-shell=FILE'
Use FILE as the grub shell. You can append arbitrary options to
FILE after the file name, like this:

grub-install --grub-shell="grub --read-only" /dev/fd0

`--recheck'
Recheck the device map, even if `/boot/grub/device.map' already
exists. You should use this option whenever you add/remove a disk
into/from your computer.

Fr0g

Thanks for your help but I took the easy way out and re-installed rh9 I can now boot into both OS's. Just need to get the modem working now