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Re: [Sheflug] Linux Dual/Multi Booting Using NTLDR
Quoting Netsonic <netsonic [at] blueyonder.co.uk>:
> Any ideas anyone ?
>
Slightly different but similar.
SuSE 8.2 installed first. Later I added XP pro.
fdisk -L shows
butter:~ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77520 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 2040 1028128+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda2 2041 64468 31463302+ 83 Linux
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda3 * 64469 77520 6578208 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
butter:~ #
after installing XP of course Linux didn't boot any longer. I booted from
Suse CD and selected rescue system.
At a root shell
made a mount point /mnt/hda2 and mounted /dev/hda2 there
then chroot /mnt/hda2
( that gave me my whole root partition and everything else as I only had a
single linux partition (excluding swap). If I'd had a seperate boot
partition, I'd need to mount that at this point .. so my chrooted shell looked
like the usual root filesystem)
I then edited /boot/grub/grub.lst using /bin/vim and added
title XP
root (hd0,2)
chainloader +1
Which tells grub to boot from /dev/hda3 and let another bootloader (ie ntldr)
take over.
After finishing editing I then ran grub
/usr/sbin/grub < /boot/grub/grub.lst
and both SuSE Linux and XP could be selected and booted from the Linux boot
menu.
I got all the info from google at the time .. so you might want to check the
details.
AED
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