Dual boot with WinXP and EvilEntity

[Casper2601]

Hi everyone, thx for reading my thread....


First of all I am another classic newbie trying to migrate 120% to linux, anyway here's my problem...

I've been using Redhat8, but really wanted to try EvilEnity. I have 2 hard drives, my first hard drive i have WinXP (for games etc..) and my second hard drive i installed EvilE. When I installed EvilE everything seemed find, Lilo installed itself and I even had a chance to play with EvilE a bit (it's awesome)
My initial problem was LILO would only give "Linux" as a boot option, it wqasn't showing WinXP. Then I dug my grave even deeper trying to fix it. I figured if i get rid of LILO (fdisk /mbr) maybe i could install a 3rd party boot manager and hopefully that new one would pick up both my operating systems. But of course It didn't.
So now my computer auto loads WinXP and I have no way to load EvilE.

So If I could borrow your smarts for a few. What must I do to be able to choose what operating system I want to use upon tyrning my computer on, also If I had kept LILO in the first place how could I have Added WinXP so LILO would give me both boot choices.

Also 1 more question (cause I know I will be facing it soon) Does "Roaring Penguin" work with EvilE so I can get my PPPoe connection up and running.

Thx so much in advance :)


Casper


P.S: ever since starting my Linux learning curve I've always used this message board and I'm amazed how kind and undertsanding people are to help newbies. Hopefully I can learn enough to contribute.

[Helper_Monkey]

If you made a boot disk you can use that to get back into linux and fix your boot problems. Install lilo (or grub) and then you should be able to configure it to see both Linux and XP. If you do a search of the forum you will find everything you need to do to configure the boot-loader.

Worst case, you need to reinstall linux (though I don't think you will need to).

[Casper2601]

Thx for the fast reply, Again I am still quite the newbie, If I don't have the relevant EvilE linux boot disk, where or how could i get one? In regard to downloading (LILO or GRUB) I am somewhat comfortable with grub, where could I find it and where and how could I install it? Thx again, being a newb is always fun :(


Casper

[jetblackz]

Boot disks can be made form usually the Linux CD1 with a floppy.

dd if=/mnt/cdrom/boot/name.img of=/dev/fd0

Read

http://jetblackz.freeservers.com/ConfiguringMultiBooting.html

[gmorguen]

Hey! I dual boot XP and EvilE, each one on it's own hard drive. You have to edit the LiLo that comes with EvilE. I have EvilE on hda and XP on hdb. XP is installed on the second drive normally, nothing has been changed. At the end of lilo.conf, add the following line:

other=/dev/hdb1
label=XP_Pro <(whatever u wanna call it)
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80

When you boot your computer, LiLo will give your choice of OS. No need to use grub or any other LiLo. EvilE's works flawlessly!

[DMR]

Originally posted by gmorguen
At the end of lilo.conf, add the following line:

other=/dev/hdb1
label=XP _Pro <(whatever u wanna call it)
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80

When you boot your computer, LiLo will give your choice of OS. No need to use grub or any other LiLo. EvilE's works flawlessly! That will work when XP is on the second drive, but that isn't the case here; in Casper 2601's situation XP is on hda. There's no drive mapping necessary; all that should be needed in lilo.conf is:other=/dev/hda1
label=XP_Pro
table=/dev/hdaAlso remember that any time you make changes to lilo.conf you have to re-execute lilo to make the changes take effect. As root, do:

/sbin/lilo