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Thread ID: 20014 2002-05-27 12:17:00 XP and RedHat 7.2 Dual Boot problem Guest (0) Press F1
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51126 2002-05-27 12:17:00 Hi guys, I ve partinioned my HD to 2 windows partitions and a linux one. I ve installed XP prof on the primary partition and than RH 7.2 on the linux partiiton. Everything went well until the final reboot and than for some reason PC is booting straight to WinXP instead of giving me the option to choose ( used GRUB). Is there anyway to fix this? Thanks Guest (0)
51127 2002-05-27 13:07:00 If you created a Linux boot disk(Not the one for the installation) during the installation you could then run Lilo ( I prefer using Lilo as you can uninstall it and restore the previous MBR) Guest (0)
51128 2002-05-27 23:47:00 If you have a boot disk then edit your /etc/lilo.conf to look something like below. YOu will need to substitute your partition numbers, Kernel version, etc.

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=WinXP

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hdd2

other=/dev/hda1
label=WinXP
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Then run /sbin/lilo to rewrite the MBR with LILO. If you have a large disk you may need to replace 'linear' with 'lba32'.
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