[ltp] Re: T43 and Linux problems

[Christopher Sawtell]

On Monday 26 December 2005 11:00, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> The dual boot problem would probably be the same whether you use 2
> OSes on 2 different partitions or on 2 different disks.
True.

> It's more a 
> matter of correctly configuring your bootloader, be it grub or lilo.
Although specifically aimed at the Gentoo Linux installer/user this URL is 
a pretty good explanation of how to set up the MBR using either grub or 
lilo.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10

Take particular note of the method used to boot Windows.

<quote='Section of grub.conf'>
# The next four lines are only if you dualboot with a Windows system.
# In this case, Windows is hosted on /dev/hda6.
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,5)
makeactive
chainloader +1
</quote>

Another trap to note is that grub starts counting at 0 while the normal 
partition labels start at 1.

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CS