[ale] Help! moving a Red Hat 8 drive to a pre-existing XP system

[Greg]

If you go into your BIOS on boot up does the pc recognize both drives ?

Before you introduce GRUB on the MBR have you gotten rid of the MS boot
loader first ???

Can you just set up the MS boot loader to boot either Linux or XP ?? I do
this sometimes on dual boot dual disk boxes, but I use Windows Pro 2000 as
the Windows OS.  I don't have any experience with XP, but it's worth a shot.

I don't guess LILO would be any better ??

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of John
> Wells
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 2:55 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Help! moving a Red Hat 8 drive to a pre-existing XP
> system
>
>
> Having a weird problem trying to move a redhat 8 drive to an existing PC
> to coexist with an XP drive.  I'm trying to reinstall Grub.  If I boot
> into the cd and do a "linux rescue", then chroot to /mnt/sysimage, and
> then run "grub-install /dev/hdb1" (hdb1 is my /boot on the linux drive) I
> get "Error: hdb1 has no corresponding BIOS entry".
>
> Ok, first effort down.  Then, tried to run the red hat 8 (and the fedora
> core 1, after 8 failed) install cd to force the "upgrade" to install grub,
> but for each cd, it craps out after selecting Upgrade and then "Customize
> packages to be installed" with "error enabling swap device hda3: No such
> device. This most likely means this swap partition has not been
> initialized".  Note: hda is the XP drive, hdb is the linux drive I'm
> introducing.  I tried dropping to the command line before reaching that
> point and "swapon /dev/hdb3" (hdb3 is my swap on the linux drive), and
> although this indeed enables the swap, both installs still crap out trying
> to swapon hda3.
>
> Anyone know what I might do to get this going?  If not, anyone know where
> the Red Hat install stores swap drive info (so I might edit it before it
> reaches this point).
>
> Thanks, as always.
> John
>
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