Louis Henning Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 Well, I have mandriva One Spring edition installed on my computer. My question is since i like to be prepared before i do anything how would i set up windows XP Pro on the same hard drive and get it to show up as a boot option in GRUB. cause I damn sure don't want anything to auto-load and cut the other OS out. HELP PLEASE!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louis Henning Posted July 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 oh and here r the contents of fdisk -l [root@localhost louish]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x4b36bdea Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1019 8185086 83 Linux /dev/hda2 1020 12161 89498115 5 Extended /dev/hda5 1020 1528 4088511 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 1529 12161 85409541 83 Linux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 On the same HD, first install windows XP then install Mandriva. While installing be careful when partitioning. Choose to install GRUB to the MBR of the HD. After you install Mandriva there should be an option to load Mandriva in the GRUB menu. If it's not there then load Mandriva and then open the Mandriva control centre>Boot>set up boot system>Next>Add>other OS (windows). In the Root box choose the first partition on the HD where XP is installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louis Henning Posted July 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 well I'm trying to install win onto an already linux partitioned HD I don't wanna reinstall linux I already went through a bunch of bullshit to get everything right...so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{BBI}Nexus{BBI} Posted July 13, 2008 Report Share Posted July 13, 2008 Here's a step by step howto with visuals: http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_linux_a...alled_first.htm. Apart from them using Ubuntu as the example, the steps are the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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