Installing Arch with Windows on the same Hard Drive

bostoniman · 2004-10-15 18:14:36

I have an Averatec AV3250HX notebook. I have Windows XP installed on a 65 GB partition, and the remainder I am leaving for Arch. I was told not to use GRUB if both OS's are on the same hard drive. Can somebody help me out with the LILO configuration?

cactus · 2004-10-15 18:33:03

I've never had a problem with grub.

bostoniman · 2004-10-15 18:43:53

And you have both of them on the same hard drive? Ok, then if you could tell me what code to put into the GRUB config file to load windows, i'd appreciate it.

phrakture · 2004-10-15 19:57:11

bostoniman wrote:

And you have both of them on the same hard drive? Ok, then if you could tell me what code to put into the GRUB config file to load windows, i'd appreciate it.

# general configuration:
timeout   5
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# (0) Arch Linux
title  archlinux
root   (hd0,3)
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/discs/disc0/part4 ro vga=794 devfs=nomount noapm acpi=yes apm=no

# (1) Windows
title  windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

that's mine - the only issue is that windows must be the first hard drive partition (and you probably dont need the kernel flags I have)

rayjgu3 · 2004-10-23 08:14:47

on my laptop i used lilo till i found this

http://www.hk8.org/old_web/linux/lnut/ch04_04.htm

this does work IF you have both os's on same disk
if they are on seperate disks it wont at least not for me
& it dont work for win98 i did it with xp

bostoniman · 2004-11-15 20:42:18

well, did you make sure that you changed the first numeral in the partition coordinates to match the hard drive?

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#1 2004-10-15 18:14:36

Installing Arch with Windows on the same Hard Drive

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Re: Installing Arch with Windows on the same Hard Drive

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Re: Installing Arch with Windows on the same Hard Drive

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