How'd he do that??


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Subject: Win XP and RedHat 7.2

First off, I would like to thank you for taking the time to post all of the info that you have.
I am trying what seems to be the popular thing these days (dual boot Windows XP and Linux).
I have followed your directions and everything is going fine, but then I'm getting that stupid
blinking cursor when I select Linux as the boot option. I read the info about that and I have tried
everything that you said. First I just repeated the dd if..... stuff and recopied the file. Still
the same. Then I re-installed Linux entirely and it still did it. I have double and triple checked
the bootsect.lnx file on c: and everything is just like it should be. And my NTFS partition is 7.5 GB
which should give the bios all the access it needs to the /boot partition. Any suggestions?

Your help would be greatly appreciated.
PS. I am new to Linux and I'm trying hard to learn as much as I can.



From: poop occurs
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: Win XP and RedHat 7.2

Thank you for your feedback. I am just starting to really get
back to things, went and stayed at the hospital for health reasons
and was down for over a month, so I haven't even had time to post some
things thats been turning up. About 12% of the feedback I get is the
same issue. It seems that people have had to format the entire drive and
then install Linux first then XP, some have even had to use fat32 for
it to work at all, which during my raid tests I found that it was
fatser than NTFS5 was, tried 4k,8k,16k,32k, and 64k (IDE default) and
each time fatser. Hope this helps a little.PS: Red Hat 7.2 will warn
you about possible problems but will do it anyway. (98 then XP then RH)
My website sits on my desk with a 20 gig 8 to linux then 7 to a fat32
then I have Xp on the end with 3 (for tv card)

Thank you and good luck.


Well, I've finally got it working correctly. I wiped out the entire drive and re-installed
Linux and then XP (using FAT32). Well, guess what! It did the exact same thing (the blinking cursor).
So then I left XP the way it was and re-installed Linux only this time I installed GRUB and I DID
install it into the MBR. It worked and I was able to boot both operating systems through GRUB.
Now here's what I thought was weird. When I selected Windows XP in GRUB it then went on to the
Windows boot loader. I thought that it would have wiped this out!? I just edited to boot.ini again
to take out the line added earlier. Everything seems to be working fine. I just let it do its
thing and it did it on its own.

Thanks for all the help!



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