dual boot?

greg252

Anyone know of a good article about dual boot win 2k/ redhat9?
Just thought I'd give it a try.

stolzyboy

no, not really, but install RH9 on a partition first and allow Grub to do the boot loading, then install windows...

onyx

If you already have windows installed then use some software to appropriately partition your drive (something like partition magic). In the installation proceedure of redhat 9 you will be able to state which partition you want to use for linux and also install grub to manage the dual boot.

I did it this way around with red hat 9 on my computer at work (running windows 2000) and had no problems.

LordShryku

Windows doesn't really like being the second install I've found. It's tries overwriting your MBR. But linux is flexible. So, the best way I've found is to install Windows, then install Linux second, and during install, specify Grub as the boot loader

stolzyboy

Originally posted by LordShryku
Windows doesn't really like being the second install I've found. It's tries overwriting your MBR. But linux is flexible. So, the best way I've found is to install Windows, then install Linux second, and during install, specify Grub as the boot loader

odd, since i've had the exact opposite results...

LordShryku

Think it may depend on Windows version? I never had a problem with anything below XP, but this weekend it did it to me again with XP. Seems to just over-write your existing MBR.

stolzyboy

that could be, XP sucks, won't touch it...

scoppc

Win2k Professional and then Redhat 9... no problem... LILO as boot loader. Just partition the harddisk ... install win2k on the first and format it with NTFS file system... leave the one for linux unformatted. 🙂