Booting Windows Xp and Linux on the Same Hard Drive.

[Jazzphone]

Hello

When i try to boot into Windows Xp it gives me a error of a unmounted drive, and it con not boot up. Linux will boot just find though. Now, I do not know if this is a Windows Xp problem only. Please reply if you have had the same problem with Windows 2000. It is a Blue Screen Error message and it wont even start up. :p Thank you for all your Help. ;)

Jazzphone

[Jazzphone]

By The Way. Im using Lilo to boot Up.

[dosh8er]

I'm not sure with XP, But I know for a fact that you are strongly urged to use the Windoze 2000 Boot Loader (I think this is primarily true with NT). Maybe that's your problem, I thought I read somewhere that XP uses the NTFS file system, however don't quote me on that one.. lemme go do some research..

(WHY XP!?!?)
:confused:

[Jazzphone]

Yes it dose support that. Well. I went and installed lilo on the Linux partition. And it still did it. I think linux just wants its own Hard Drive. I guess i can do that. :P . Windows Xp is very nice btw. I think anyone will enjoy is wonderful interface and stability along with compatiblity. Its stronger then 2k with the Wits of WinMe. Its a great combination.

[miker]

It has really good MP3 breakware, too, infavour of copy-locked WMA and all the icons look like boiled sweets to me.

I really like the Microsoft have invented their own partitioning standard too so that you have more than 'basic' and 'dynamic' disks to deal with you have the propriety base-level code to deal with their DFS system. Still, it means we can all look forward to Partition Magic 7.

Also I love the IE6 smart-tags which give advertisers more leverage to your private browsing, excellent!

At least it doesn't come bundled with any AOL crap either since MS and AOL have had a major falling out apparently :-)

Yes, WinXP, certainly an eXPerience.

(BTW, once upon a time XP meant 'cross platform', Microsoft have a perverse sense of humour if nothing else)

All this, and I haven't even *used* WinXP yet (call me harsh)

Still, at least WinXP has an 'autorecovery' so that when it totally screws itself it does a transparent restore. How thoughtful.

WinXP - why? Win2K is perfectly adequate.

Ah! M$ is starting to do license audits to bully punters (well, businesses actually) into 2 year upgrade cycles/subscriptions - since upgrading to legit M$ services will be cheaper than cobbling together an audit (do you still have all your MS-DOS and Win3.11 licenses kicking around somewhere)

So, yes, WinXP is fantastic, you can write letters and play games on it.

Of course you could also start developing with SOAP, but that's an entirely different upgrade path...

[fow99]

I am not sure what your problem is because I don't know how you installled the oses. I am tri-booting Linux RH 6.2, Win 98, WinXp at the moment. They works just fine. I already had LILO dual-booting Win98/Linux b4 I installed XP. I installed XP on mbr (which is mandatory I think) and moved lilo to its own partition and add an entry into the XP boot.ini.......................................... ...

[Silent Bob]

I have a dual boot with Linux and XP.

What I did was (starting with a blank HD) make a partition for XP and install it there
install Linux in the remaining HD space
reboot (it goes straight into Linux)
add this to /usr/lilo.conf
other=/dev/hda1
label=WindowsXP
the label is just what comes up on the option screen when you boot
open up a terminal and run /sbin/lilo
reboot and choose OS :)

[n00bi]

This url (http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/) might be of help.