Booting with Windows

Floppy_Drive · Post by **Floppy_Drive** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:49 pm

I'm trying to do a boot with windows and Linux. In my grub file I have:

title WindowsME
root (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
boot

I got that off the internet. The windows hard drive is my second hard drive. I get an error 25 when I try to use it.

Philip · Post by **Philip** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:49 pm

Be more antisocial.

Post by **Devari** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:35 am

Most good distros autodetect this stuff. What the heck are you using?!

Post by **The Beatles** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:39 am

Lilo is easier.
other=/dev/hdaXX
label="Windows"

Post by **Devari** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:21 am

Only "problem" with LILO is the whole "write to MBR instead of config file" thing. Then again, GRUB borked itself when I did some repartioning, while LILO would have lived.

I say problem loosly. I actually prefer LILO.

Floppy_Drive · Post by **Floppy_Drive** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:34 pm

I was going to give linspire a try...It uses grub though. Back to slackware and xfce.

Post by **windhound** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:15 am

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title windows
	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1

Fedora by default uses GRUB, and I've been fairly happy with it
that loads windows fine on my machine

Floppy_Drive · Post by **Floppy_Drive** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 12:30 pm

It just hangs on my computer. It just says Loading Windows. It never loads it though.

Philip · Post by **Philip** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 12:30 pm

Floppy_Drive · Post by **Floppy_Drive** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:25 pm

It's all working now. Thank you for no help beatles and devari

. Thank you for your help windy.

Philip · Post by **Philip** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:25 pm

It's all working now. Thank you for no help beatles and devari. Thank you for your help windy.

Right now?
Thank you for the
clarification. You are quite welcome!

Your purpose is no help beatles and devari. You are quite welcome!

Your purpose is your help windy.

Post by **The Beatles** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:41 pm

So how's Linspire?

Philip · Post by **Philip** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:41 pm

So how's Linspire?

Oh. Do you prefer books or TV?

Post by **windhound** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 10:58 pm

spiffy

btw, 'cause this topic is linux-related, how the elk do you kill kicker in KDE?!
I did "killall kicker" and it /restarted/ kicker.. the second time worked, but still..

I renamed 'kicker' in /usr/bin to kicker~ with the thought that if it couldnt find it, it wouldnt start it.. but it did O_o

I'd like xfce4-systray to auto-load, as I'm rather tired of kicker and its little quirks.. but I cant even get that to start.. I did yum install xfce4-systray, and it installed it fine, xfce4-panel works great, but the systray wont work, or am I trying to call the wrong thing?

meh.

linspire looks rather pretty, but I dont really care much for it.. I looked at it on somone else's computer.. took a bit to load, doesnt seem to have a compiler, you have to pay for its programs.. its way too much like windows -.- ...but it also seems harder to break.. which is rather nice..

if you like it thats great though =D

oh, and antisocial ; )

Post by **The Beatles** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:13 pm

Hehe windy
mv /usr/lib/kde3/libkicker* /root

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