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GRUB - DUAL BOOT

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by stahler1 1 view

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I am trying to use GRUB to dual boot a RH 7.2 system with Windows XP. I installed XP on the main drive. I installed 7.2 on the secondary.
The two drives are hda1(XP) and hdd1(2,3) Linux. Grub works to boot up to Linux but me being a newbie and all, can't get it to see WINDOWS. Does anyone know what I need to do!! THanks in advance.

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by feizhou

You will have to find the menu.1st under the /boot directory. This holds the menu configuration for grub.

You need to add an entry for Windows XP. You can use the following entry for XP
--cut-between-here--
title Windows XP // Or whatever you like :)
root (hd0, 0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
--and-here--
So boot into Linux first. Open the /boot/menu.1st file and paste the above after all the stuff you find in the file.

by stahler1

If I read your directions correctly, I assume you wanted me to add that statement in the grub.conf
It did not work, was there somewhere else that I should have added it? I am not at my machine so i can't tell you what the error is right now.

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