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dual boot XP and Redhat 9

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VMPhilosophy

Technical User
May 17, 2003
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I have had Win XP on a hard drive with 2 partitions Win Xp on the first partition and I installed redhat on the 2nd partition and the boot loader recognizes the the partition i labeled it windows. redhat boots fine, but when i boot to XP it says NTLDR missing. i Hate when this happens!! it takes me forever to figure out the problem every time this happens and its never the same fix sometimes, im just bad at duaL booting. any help would be greatly appreciated.

"Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when land sharks start circling the boarders you can just cut them off at the corners?" - Aesop Rock
 
To things are needed:

1. What bootloader you are using
2. If possible post the contents of the bootloader and your partition info.
 
im using grub, im used to installing lilo so i dont know which file has my boot loader contents. when it asked me i forgot to specify lilo.

"Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when land sharks start circling the boarders you can just cut them off at the corners?" - Aesop Rock
 
never mind i found it. also i should add that both windows and linux are installed on drive F: (its a lettering mess thanks to XP) drive C: was a storage drive and d: and E: are cdroms. windows was booting fine off of drive F:

#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1


"Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when land sharks start circling the boarders you can just cut them off at the corners?" - Aesop Rock
 
still NTLDR is missing ARGGHHH!!

"Did you ever wish a circle was a square, so when land sharks start circling the boarders you can just cut them off at the corners?" - Aesop Rock
 
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