RH & WIN2K

[Guest_imported]

hi experts,

i have one 40GB hdisk in my PC. i succesfully installed win2k server within half of the drive (20GB).

i tried installing Red Hat ver 7.2 on the other half of the drive but after i successfully installed RH - it won't allow me to have an option to boot win2k(during bootup).

i tried mandrake 8.0 and works okay... graphical lilo option includes windows...

is there something i missed or should adjust?

we're running linux and would like it co-exist with win2k server.

would appreciate any feedback.

 

[jxfish2]

The way you've installed it, your system is dual bootable...

One O/S or the other...

I highly recommend the latest version of VMware...

You build your base machine in Linux, then install VMware...

WMware creates a "virtual" bios, which looks and feels just like the real bios on your machine...

You can then load Win2K in the VMware session, and run Linux and Win2K at the exact same time, on the exact same machine...

VMware is smart enough to allow sharing of all resources, including network, video, CD ROM drives, floppy drives, etc...

The ONLY drawback to VMware is this: VMware runs inside of a Linux account...

If you close the Linux users session, the VMware session is also closed...

If you can run the Linux system with the same user always logged in, you can have multiple user accounts setup inside of the Win2K session...

 

[Guest_imported]

jxfish2,

thank you very much.

but i just wanted my PC to prompt or flash selection whether i want to boot linux or win2k. i made it work with mandrake 8.0 but couldn't in Red Hat 7.2.

 

[axman505]

Can't you just add something to LILO?? that was always my understanding

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Presumably you installed grub as the default boot loader with RH 7.2 . If so, you just need to edit your /boot/grub.conf and add a block like this :

title windoze
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

(Assumes your win is on /dev/hda1)

Hope this helps

 

[Guest_imported]

ifincham,

works great! thanks.