Hi,
I found your web page about Dual booting Linux and Windows XP and have
used it, along with the BOOTPART tool from www.image.com/bootpart.htm
mentioned in your web page.
I have a DELL Optiplex GX270, with 40 Gb disk, partitioned in
- 20 Gb NTFS for WinXP
- 20 Gb Extended partition containing
RedHat9 linux /boot, /, and swap partition.
The dual-boot system was set up in this way.
The WinXP partition is the active one. I use the Windows XP Boot manager
to offer Windows XP and Linux. (I used the BOOTPART tool from
www.image.com/bootpart.htm to add a Linux option)
Choosing Linux starts the Linux GRUB boot-loader installed in the /boot
partition. It offers Linux and WindowsXP.
(WindowsXP in the GRUB is not exactly necessary, but it can be useful
to be able to go back quickly to WindowsXP, if by error you selected
Linux from the WIndows Boot Manager, then you don't need to go through
the process of a full shutdown/reboot)
This works fine.
Now I want to clone that using Symantec Ghost
I can make a GHOST image of that first PC via Symantec Ghost 7.0 console
and copy it onto another 100% identical DELL Optiplex GX270.
But the cloned system has problems.
I describe what I have to do for the moment to make the cloned system
fully dual-boot functional ...
On the cloned system:
1. The WindowsXP boot-loader is available, one can start WindowsXP,
but selecting the Linux option gives
Bootpart 2.50 Bootsector (c) 1993-2002 Gillis Vollant
http://www/winimage.com/bootpart.htm
Loading new partition
Bootsector from C.H. Hochstatter
Cannot load from hardisk
Insert Systemdisk and press any key
I can workarround that by first starting in Windows XP, using the bootpart
tool once more (thus creating a second 'Linux' entry in C:\BOOT.INI, and
immediatly afterwards removing that entry again, through editing in Start
/ ControlPanel / Advanded / StartUp-and-Recovery-Settings / Edit the
startup options file manually.
The next time I choose Linux, it now gets a bit further: it starts GRUB,
but GRUB ... reports a problem (don't have the exact message right now)
2. I can solve this problem by booting the PC from the 1st Linux CD,
in rescue mode:
boot: linux rescue
and then reinstalling GRUB
# grub-install /dev/hda5
(/dev/hda5 is my linux /boot partition)
Now both boot-loaders work fully.
But if I want to clone my PC for a PC-class room for 60 PCs, and all this
manual intervention for 60 PCs is quite lengthy. Also it prevents me from
automatically restoring the image every night...
For the first manual intervention (doing BOOTPART again) it *might* be
possible to automate via Symantec Ghost.
But the second intervention, I don't see how to automate this.
I have the impression the boot-sector in my linux /boot is 'broken' after
cloning.
Has anyone a solution, hint or tip to solve this ?
Thanks in advance for any help
Pieter
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