raxet wrote: > Well I did the right thing I thought. Installed with grub with a dual > boot option for WinXP and RH Severn. > Here is my fdisk list of partitions: > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 1850 14860093+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda2 1851 1863 104422+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 1864 2058 1566337+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda4 2059 3649 12779707+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hda5 2059 3649 12779676 83 Linux > grub.conf : > #boot=/dev/hda2 > default=0 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > password --md5 (hidden from your view) > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ > initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img > title WinXP > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > But it won't boot either?? What did I do wrong... booting of rescue > diskette. Dunno where you went wrong, but with grub on /dev/hda2 instead of /dev/hda, /dev/hda2 instead of /dev/hda1 needs to be your active partition. You can easily change that with fdisk. -- "A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control." Proverbs 29:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
