dualbooting rh9 and xp fat

tass6x01 · 07-15-2003, 07:38 PM

i'm a recent newbie. i started using mandrake on my laptop and that was all fine until i wanted to dual boot it on my desktop and the ethernet card would freeze with mandrake. i want to work on rh9 anyways so i installed it and configured lilo... at least i thought i did it right. now windows only boots after my installation... i booted from the disk and it gives me an error. says that the disk is bad. i did this twice on two different disks. please help me.

softcore26 · 07-15-2003, 10:04 PM

install lilo or grub into MBR(Master Boot Record) and then add windows entry to it. then you can choose either rh9 or xp to boot.
......post the error that you are getting when you are booting from floppy..

tass6x01 · 07-15-2003, 10:49 PM

Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue. i'm sorry how would i go about installing lilo/grub into the mbr? i thought that was what the install program did.... thanx

mhchavez99 · 07-16-2003, 12:08 AM

To install grub to the mbr do this as root:

/usr/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda

tass6x01 · 07-16-2003, 01:37 AM

thanks ne'ways everyone tried alot of things but i fixed my mandrake and it works just fine thanks.. at least on this box i'll stick with mandrake