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unable to boot windows 2000 after installing redhat Advanced server

Jagadesh — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:57:54 GMT

I installed RedHat on previously installed windows 2000 machine

The partition details are
C drive 7 GB
D drive 7 GB
E drive 10 GB
F drive 14 GB

I used E drive 10GB for insalling redhat
i created three partitions
/dev/hda5 - /boot 50mb
/dev/hda6 - swap 256mb
/dev/hda7 - / remaining 10GB

After installing RedHat iam not able to boot in to windows. In my /boot iam having grub and not lilo.

Kindly help me out

Thanks in advance

Jagadesh

The machine in which i installed RedHat

Re: unable to boot windows 2000 after installing redhat Advanced server

Huc_1 — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:51:21 GMT

have a look at /etc/grub.conf it should have enty's for your W2K in this file

to get more info type the following command and have a look at section abour booting

#info grub

sorry I cant give you an extract of a multi boot /etc/grub.conf I dont have one under-hand at the present

J-P

Re: unable to boot windows 2000 after installing redhat Advanced server

Huc_1 — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:11:32 GMT

Ok one of my /etc/grub.conf
has theses entry's for a dos boot

default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xprm.gz
password --md5 $1$xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-20.9)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmslinux-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img
title DOS
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

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hope this help you a long
good luck

J-P

Re: unable to boot windows 2000 after installing redhat Advanced server

Jerome Henry — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:32:19 GMT

Hi,

Follow Jean Piere's tip : it's quite a common effect on installing advanced server on 2k machine or even normal distro on 2k server machine, as normally there are not 2 server systems on one machine.

From what you write, I understand that all is on first ide disk, which is identified by hda. So C: is hda1 for linux, d: hda2. I do not know about F: drive (you can check all this doing fdisk -l /dev/hda), but your extended partition is /dev/hda4, in which logical partitions appear the way you describe.
So, from Jean Pierre grub.conf, yours should be :
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xprm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-20.9)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmslinux-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img
title win 2k
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Assuming that hda1 is your windows partition, which is referenced her as (hd0,0), hd0 meaning first ide disk, ',0' being the first partition.
If it's on the second, it'll be (hd0,1), and so on.

Change these values on your grub.conf, save and just reboot. It should work.

hth

J