[ale] dual booting RedHat7.2 and Win2k

[Geoffrey]

Jeff Rose wrote:

> Ok so I gave this a try and it didn't work.  I got Win2k installed fine. 
> I booted Linux into rescue mode and tried to reinstall grub.  Windows 
> reformatted /boot to FAT16.  I used mke2fs to change the file system 
> back and reinstalled grub.  Grub sees /boot as ext2fs but fdisk is still 
> seeing it as FAT16.  Grub still doesnt work.  I am able to boot into the 
> gui from a floppy but with errors that /dev/hda1 (/boot) cant be 
> mounted.  I assume that mount is trying to mount it as ext2fs but sees 
> it as FAT16.   Does anyone have any idea what is going on?  Any and all 
> help is appreciated.


You need to use fdisk to change it to ext2, then make the file system...


> 
> Jeff
> 
> JGlass at WesleyanCollege.edu wrote:
> 
>> You should be able to boot off your rescue disk, then run "grub-install
>> /dev/hda".  I've only used grub a few times, so someone please correct 
>> me if
>> I'm wrong.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jonathan Glass
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeff Rose [mailto:jojerose at mindspring.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:52 AM
>> To: ale at ale.org
>> Subject: Re: [ale] dual booting RedHat7.2 and Win2k
>>
>>
>> I'm still pretty new to Linux so forgive my ignorance.  I have a boot 
>> floppy for RedHat.  So if Win2k overwrites the MBR I assume I will 
>> have to instruct grub to overwrite that.  I'm not sure how to do 
>> this.  By adding win2k to the grub conf, will I accomplish this or do 
>> I need to run grub or reinstall grub?  Will Win2k's boot program give 
>> me the option of booting into Linux?  I just want to know what I'm 
>> getting into before I begin.  Thanks for all the help. 
>> Mazukna, Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> 1. boot redhat and make a boot floppy for it.
>>> 2. install win2k on you second hdd. it will overlay MBR on the master 
>>> hdd
>>> 3. boot redhat from floppy. add win2k to your lilo or grub conf. 
>>> activate
>>> 4. reboot & enjoy
>>>
>>> Tomas
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jeff Rose [mailto:jojerose at mindspring.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:12 AM
>>> To: ale at ale.org
>>> Subject: [ale] dual booting RedHat7.2 and Win2k
>>>
>>>
>>> So I want to dual boot... I have RedHat7.2 installed already.  I have 
>>> a second drive I want to put Win2k on.  I've dual booted before but 
>>> installed Win2k first then installed SuSE on a second drive.  That 
>>> was easy enough.  But I don't want to install Win2k then install 
>>> RedHat again.  I have it running nicely and would like to keep it 
>>> that way.  My question is how can I now install Win2k on the second 
>>> drive and be able to boot it from grub?  I thought about removing the 
>>> RedHat drive, moving the second drive to the master ide connection, 
>>> installing Win2k, then moving it to the slave ide position and 
>>> reattaching the RedHat drive back to the master.  /*a lot of work 
>>> just to get Windows going*/  Is this possible? Will Win2k change my 
>>> bios settings?  Does anyone know of a better way to go about this?  
>>> Thanks for the input
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
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