Dual Boot Red Hat 7.1 and Win ME troubles.

[*Drew*]

hey i am attempting to dual boot linux and windows and cant seem to do it i have 1 40 gig hard drive and partition it and everything but i cant get it to work.
any help would be GREAT!
Thanks!!

[*Drew*]

what should i install first?
i have tried both ways for the past two days and am still stumped.

[slapNUT]

First off how is your hard drive partitioned. Second what boot loader are you using LILO, GRUB, Loadlin ... Third where is the boot process failing? Can you boot Windows and not Linux or can you boot Linux and not Windows or neither? Maybe you could post a config file of your boot loader. Try typing this from a terminal:
/sbin/fdisk /dev/hda -l #Thats a lowercase "L"
Then copy the listing and post it.

[Ace69]

Load WIN2K first and then Linux. LILO will detect the existence of the other OS and if all goes well, you will get an option to go to DOS or Linux upon boot.

[*Drew*]

im REALLY new at this
i have tried many partition types but cant figure it out.
im the ultimate newbie so if someone knows of a place where it shows step by step from a blank hard drive that would be great.
i would give you so much thanks!!
a way to install linux and win ME on a hd from scratch (unformatted HD)
thanks!

[slapNUT]

Well this NHF (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/osbooting/tripleb.html) is about triple booting Linux NT & Win98 but you could use it. Just ignore the stuff on NT and remember that WinME is really Win98 3rd Edition.

Good Luck!

[Linuxwanabe]

I had the same problem with win2k, I installed redhat after win2k but could not get back to win 2k unless I used fdisk to set the partition active. In Lilo conf I had to add '/dev/hda1' which I labeled win2k, when changes were applied it said added win2k I then changed win2k to default boot. hope this helps and works in ME.