[ale] dual booting RedHat7.2 and Win2k

[Jeff Rose]

Ok so I gave this a try and it didn't work.  I got Win2k installed fine. 
 I booted Linux into rescue mode and tried to reinstall grub.  Windows 
reformatted /boot to FAT16.  I used mke2fs to change the file system 
back and reinstalled grub.  Grub sees /boot as ext2fs but fdisk is still 
seeing it as FAT16.  Grub still doesnt work.  I am able to boot into the 
gui from a floppy but with errors that /dev/hda1 (/boot) cant be 
mounted.  I assume that mount is trying to mount it as ext2fs but sees 
it as FAT16.   Does anyone have any idea what is going on?  Any and all 
help is appreciated.

Jeff

JGlass at WesleyanCollege.edu wrote:

>You should be able to boot off your rescue disk, then run "grub-install
>/dev/hda".  I've only used grub a few times, so someone please correct me if
>I'm wrong.
>
>Thanks
>
>Jonathan Glass
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Rose [mailto:jojerose at mindspring.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:52 AM
>To: ale at ale.org
>Subject: Re: [ale] dual booting RedHat7.2 and Win2k
>
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>I'm still pretty new to Linux so forgive my ignorance.  I have a boot 
>floppy for RedHat.  So if Win2k overwrites the MBR I assume I will have 
>to instruct grub to overwrite that.  I'm not sure how to do this.  By 
>adding win2k to the grub conf, will I accomplish this or do I need to 
>run grub or reinstall grub?  Will Win2k's boot program give me the 
>option of booting into Linux?  I just want to know what I'm getting into 
>before I begin.  Thanks for all the help.  
>
>Mazukna, Thomas wrote:
>
>>1. boot redhat and make a boot floppy for it.
>>2. install win2k on you second hdd. it will overlay MBR on the master hdd
>>3. boot redhat from floppy. add win2k to your lilo or grub conf. activate
>>4. reboot & enjoy
>>
>>Tomas
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jeff Rose [mailto:jojerose at mindspring.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:12 AM
>>To: ale at ale.org
>>Subject: [ale] dual booting RedHat7.2 and Win2k
>>
>>
>>So I want to dual boot... I have RedHat7.2 installed already.  I have a 
>>second drive I want to put Win2k on.  I've dual booted before but 
>>installed Win2k first then installed SuSE on a second drive.  That was 
>>easy enough.  But I don't want to install Win2k then install RedHat 
>>again.  I have it running nicely and would like to keep it that way.  My 
>>question is how can I now install Win2k on the second drive and be able 
>>to boot it from grub?  I thought about removing the RedHat drive, moving 
>>the second drive to the master ide connection, installing Win2k, then 
>>moving it to the slave ide position and reattaching the RedHat drive 
>>back to the master.  /*a lot of work just to get Windows going*/  Is 
>>this possible? Will Win2k change my bios settings?  Does anyone know of 
>>a better way to go about this?  Thanks for the input
>>
>>Jeff
>>
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