Basil L. Copeland Jr. schrieb: >> On my new comp first I installed RH 8 (root is /dev/hda6). After that I >> installed Windows XP Professional on /dev/hda1. Windows rebooted and >> worked fine. Then i started RH from CD to bring back lilo. Since then, >> lilo works, linux works, but when i try to start XP i get something >> like "Please remove other media" message. Here is that part of lilo: >> >> other=/dev/hda1 >> optional >> label=DOS >> >> Does Win XP Pro requires some special parameters to start ? >> -- >> Eng. Dusan Djordjevic (RHCE) > > Since RH 7.2, I have always chosen GRUB when dual booting. And I > always recommend installing the Windows OS first, then Linux, when > dual booting. This order has always worked for me. The other doesn't > always work. I teach in a college where our students frequently have > to dual boot, and sometimes triple boot. Try setting up a hard drive > to triple boot Linux, Windows 2000 Server, and Novell Netware > sometime! ;{) > > -Basil > > #info grub you can navigate with [cursors], [<][>] choose: booting os-specific notes dos-windows i am not sure - but you need : rootnoverify makeactiv chainloader +1 you can run in trouble with hide!!!!! grub ;-) -- shrek-m