Dual Boot help

MrPurple · August 9th, 2002, 01:26 PM

Ok, I got my mobo from Soyo back, and I am ready to venture into the wonderfull world of Linux.
Now I need help.
I have Win XP installed on my first drive.
I want to install Linux on the second drive, but how do I go about doing a dual boot.
I really don't want to experiment because I don't want reinstall XP, or try to fix the MBR.
Also how would I go about making it so that at boot it defaults to XP?

Thanks alot for your support.

eweruk · August 9th, 2002, 01:56 PM

Have not done much dual boots with Linux but I know Linux will setup a LILO boot loader so you will have a GUI screen to choose OS. There are a lot of Linux guys on the forum so they can shed more light on this.

S.D.Willie · August 9th, 2002, 04:30 PM

refer to this thread if you dont want to install lilo in the MBR and want to use XP's bootloader.

SD

ps. it worked like a charm by the way with redhat, drake, etc

by doing it this way XP will automatically be the default OS b ut you can right click on my computer, go to properties, startup and recovery. in there you can change the default, set timeouts and what not. good luck.

griobhta · August 9th, 2002, 09:31 PM

There is an update to that method, you will see it down near the end of the thread but here is a new thread on the topic.

Basicaly mow both grub and lilo will boot a ntfs partition so you can uses these to dual boot.

Griobhta

MrPurple · August 9th, 2002, 10:22 PM

Thanks, but I got another problem now.
Since I am using the RAID on my soyo board as additional IDE channels, and both of my optical drives are on those channels, I can't boot from the Linux CDs. I know that they work fine since I installed it on my laptop and it worked fine.

PS. Using RedHat 7.3.

Any ideas?

griobhta · August 10th, 2002, 09:03 PM

you might then have to see if there is a boot floppy that has the specific drivers for your raid channels. CHeck the red hat web site for different types of boot disks.

Griobhta

Jeordiewhite · August 10th, 2002, 09:12 PM

Yes, install the driver's first thing, when you install choose grub over lilo. I have had prob's with lilo, trying to boot anything besides 9x windows. Since I only use windows 2k and XP I find it necsasery to use grub, Since I didn't have option in suse 8.0 to boot from grub I had to get boot magic. Just a little wrong doing in the setup can lead to bad things. So don't over look anything.