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June 24, 2003 at 02:40 AM
pvan

Multi-boot and grub and system comander

by pvan . Updated 22 years, 11 months ago

I’ve looked through the threads and have not found exactly my situation. I saw an answer to another multiboot question, but I don’t think I can use bootpart because my machine has an ntfs primary active partition.

I’m definitly a newbie with linux. Here’s where I’m at:

I’m trying to tri-boot my laptop using system commander — 2 instances of xp and one install of RH linux 9.

I got through the linux install OK, but I think I made the wrong choice for boot options. I picked lilo instead of grub (basically because I had heard of it ….), then got an error message from system commander saying something about my choice was imcompatible with the partion it had setup …. blah blah blah …

eventually I got through the install and managed to get system commander to show me a linux boot option …. but when I choose it I get an error saying no boot files are present.

So — I *THINK* I need to install grub onto the partition that my linux is installed to. If I can do that, thenI *THINK* the install I did should be just fine and I can start making sure the nic driver works,, etc ….!!

How would I go about getting grub installed on this partition? Is that the right thing to do? Am I hosed?

Anyone have some advice forme?

Peter

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