Dual Booting RedHat 7.1 and XP pro.

[Dæmonite]

Recently I've been attempting to get both working together and keep running into the same problem. I'll save you the details, my question is, what is a good way to get a dual boot setup so that either Lilo will boot to XP or XP Will give the choice to boot to RH. Currently when I install Lilo it will only reboot to an 'L' and a blinking cursor forcing me to rip out partitions and start over.

Thanks!

Dae-

[bdg1983]

Post you partition layout and your lilo.conf so we can have a look and perhaps give you some suggestions.

I saved this from another thread for using XP to boot both.

Install XP first, then install Linux. do NOT WRITE LILO TO THE MASTER BOOT RECORD ! (/dev/hda)

write lilo to the root partition of your linux install (say, /dev/hda5)

THEN, edit the lilo.conf and make the BOOT and ROOT optoins the same
boot = /dev/hda5
root = /dev/hda5

run lilo

Now, type
dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/bootsect.lnx count=1 bs=512

that will make a file named bootsect.lnx
copy that file to a floppy that windows can read (a fat12 formated floppy, you need to figure that part out yourself)

then boot into Windows XP (MNAKE SURE YOU HAVE A LINUX BOOT DISK AND YOU DID NOT WRITE LILO TO THE MBR )

copy the bootsect.lnx file to the C:\ drive

edit the c:\boot.ini and add..

C:\bootsect.lnx = "Linux 0wnZ j00 !"

or whatever

there MUST be a empty line after the last one.

reboot windows and you should see the XP bootup screen and have an option of XP and Linux.

[bdg1983]

I ran a dual boot with XP, and found the best and easiest thing to do is just write the linux lilo to a floppy. This way you won`t mess with the MBR or anything that has to do with xp at all.

[johnwebb]

I have had a machine stop booting at the "L" when I made a change to the config file without running "lilo -v" afterwards. I just booted up with the floppy and ran the command.

Another option would be to use "Grub". Redhat 7.2 installs it by default. I currently dual boot with Windows 2000 Professional using it.