dual booting (win2k3 / RH9 linux)

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dual booting (windows 2003 ad sever / RH9 linux)

I've have tried installing as a dual boot (win2k3/linux RH9) on an acer altosG510 server, i have successfully installed both OS's but i can only boot to redhat linux via the boot floppy disk. I have used the LILO boot loader, which does not come up at startup.

I have never had any difficulty dual booting(winxp/linux) previously so how do I get the same result with (win2k3/linux RH9).

Haven't tried manually editing the lilo boot loader? Any help would be great.

[saikee]

Since you can boot up RH9 you can do the following

In root terminal mode of Red Hat type
fdisk -l
This will list all the partitions of every hard disk in your PC.

Locate the first partition with type ID 7 as this is a ntfs partition for XP. A "*" next to it means it is bootable. Say this is your XP partition hda1.

You can then edit /etc/lilo.conf and make sure the following two lines are inside
other=/dev/hda1
label=XP
save the file and issue this command in the root terminal
lilo -b /dev/hda
If Lilo does not report any error then you should now be able to boot both system without the floppy.

If log in as root you can click the file manager /etc/lilo.conf in the desktop and the graphic editor "gedit" will appear. If you can only log in as a normal user you still can claim root privilege by command "su" in the terminal and followed by root password. Thereafter you can trigger the graphic editor in terminal mode by command
gedit /ect/lilo.conf

Adjust the hda1 and hda according to the findings in "fdisk -l". If you need assistance post the output of

(1) "fdisk -l"
(2) /etc/lilo.conf
(3) /etc/fstab