[ale] GRUB & dual boots Questions

[LIDGE,CATHERINE (HP-Loveland,ex1)]

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Currently I have a dual boot setup with XP and Red Hat 7.3,
I am using GRUB as my boot loader and have run into a large issue, <span
class=GramE>it seems I may simply be missing a step.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â  Currently when I boot, my boot.ini displays
a dual option:

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>XP Pro

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Red Hat 7.3

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>But if select Red Hat 7.3 it will reboot the unit. 

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My grub.conf looks like:

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>#boot=/dev/hd5

<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>default=<font
size=2 face=Arial>0

<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>timeout=<font
size=2 face=Arial>0

<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>splashimage<font
size=2 face=Arial>=(hda0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>title<font
size=2 face=Arial> Red Hat Linux
(2.4.18-3)

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
root (hda0,4)

<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>kernel<font
size=2 face=Arial>
/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev//hda5

<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>initrd<font
size=2 face=Arial>
/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img

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font-family:Arial'>Â 

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My HDD is partitioned:

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>/dev/hda1Â Â 
*Â Â Â Â  1<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â  <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â 406<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â Â Â Â  <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â 3069328+<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â  <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â Â 7<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â  HPFS/NTFS

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>/dev/hda2<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  407 <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 1761<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â Â Â  10243800<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â Â Â Â  <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â 5<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â  Extended

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>/dev/hda5<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  407<span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  948<span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>Â Â Â Â Â Â  4097488+<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â Â  <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â 83<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â  Linux

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>/dev/hda6<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  949<span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  1490<span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>Â Â Â Â  4097488+<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â Â  <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â 83 Linux

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>/dev/hda7<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â Â Â Â Â Â  1491<span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  1558<span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>Â Â Â Â  514048+<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â Â Â Â  82 Linux SWAP

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>/dev/hda8Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  1559<span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>Â Â Â Â  1626<span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>Â Â Â Â  514048+<span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  83
Linux            <span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>/dev/hda9<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  1627<span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>Â Â Â Â Â Â  1755<span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>Â Â Â Â  975208+<span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  83
Linux

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My boot.ini:

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[boot loader]

<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>timeout=<font
size=2 face=Arial>30

<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>default=<font
size=2 face=Arial>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[operating systems]

<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>multi(<font
size=2 face=Arial>0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows="Microsoft
Windows XP Professsional" /fastdetect

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>C:/GRUBBoot.lnx="Red Hat 7.3"

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font-family:Arial'>Â 

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>After I installed Red Hat 7.3, I followed the following
steps:

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 <font
     size=2 face=Arial>#dd
     if=/dev/hda5 of=GRUBBoot.lnx bs=512 count=1
 <font
     size=2 face=Arial>then I
     copied GRUBBoot.lnx to my recovery or backup redhat floppy 
 <font
     size=2 face=Arial>Then in
     XP I copied GRUBBoot.lnx to C:\ directly 
 <font
     size=2 face=Arial>Editing
     my boo.ini see above 


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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have also run grub-install /dev/hda5 again and still
system will only reboot itself after the Red Hat selection.

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

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