<DIV>I put XP pro on first and left blank partition space and then installed RH 9 and all works fine. Remember, always put windows first!<BR><BR><B><I>"Kevin E. Glosser" <keg@adelphia.net></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 15:01, Cyber Source wrote:<BR>> I have also never had a problem with it being master/slave or<BR>> whatever, it is totally configurable in lilo<BR><BR>When I put XP on, neither Grub nor Lilo would enter the second boot<BR>stage and become responsive. My machine just sat there.<BR><BR>I scoured the net looking for solutions. I found tons. Unfortunately,<BR>none of them were correct. Some pointed to the BIOS, some pointed to the<BR>boot loader being in the MBR as opposed to the first boot sector on the<BR>hard drive.<BR><BR>Other people gave workarounds for using XP's bootloader and then editing<BR>boot.ini. I didn't want to try this. There was no reason for Grub or<BR>Lilo to not work.<BR><BR>In the end, although the great majority of people(including Redhat's own<BR>documentation) said NOT to put Grub in the MBR, that is where I put it.<BR><BR>I have no real an!
swer why previously it did not work, other than i<BR>believe a newer version of Grub may be the reason I eventually got it to<BR>work. However, it was odd that Lilo didn't work either. I had always<BR>used Lilo in the past.<BR><BR>Regardless, my previous post was meant to state that 1) the solution i<BR>used, does work 2) it IS possible to have issues dual booting NT/2000/XP<BR>and Linux and 3) for convenience I added the other recommendations.<BR><BR>Peter, is there a particular reason why you favor FAT32 over NTFS 5.1?<BR>Other, than what I already stated.<BR><BR>Microsoft file systems are traditionally considered crap. So, choosing<BR>one evil over the other isn't necessarily a joyful occasion. I've never<BR>heard anyone say they loved the FAT file system. I've never heard anyone<BR>say they liked NTFS either, but it does have some abilities FAT32<BR>doesn't. I'm just curious to what makes it unappealing.<BR><BR>Thanks for any response in advance.<BR><BR>KEG<BR></BLOCKQUO!
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