Configuring Multi Booting of WindowsXp and Red Hat Linux 9 Systems

[Kalyan]

Configuring Multi Booting of WindowsXp and Red Hat Linux 9 Systems

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.

My Case, hope this will help :


first installed windows xp on first primary ntfs partition hda1 then i have d: and e: as logical fat32 drives hda5 & hda6 respectively
then i have /boot partition on hda7, / partition on hda8 and swap as hda9 after installing linux, booted from floppy and in root terminal i typed

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

then i restarted in windows copied 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.