Re: windows XP NTFS\redhat 7.2

[Jeff Sheinberg]

Tom Lane writes:
[...]
 > 
 > I am not sure why GRUB can chain to WinXP's boot code when WinXP is in a
 > primary partition, but not when it's in a logical partition.  Might be
 > something for the GRUB maintainers to look into.

Have you tried installing WinXP into a logical partition as you
had originally done so and then found that you could subsequently
boot into WinXP using only standard M$ MBR supplied by WinXP?

If your answer to my question is no, then how do you expect to get
GRUB to boot WinXP in a configuration when WinXP cannot even boot
itself?

 > 
 > I'm also not sure exactly what the conditions are under which WinXP's
 > installer will create a logical rather than primary partition for
 > WinXP.  But preallocating all four primary partition slots, as I did
 > this time, seems to prevent that from happening.

I don't know WinXP, but I am familiar with WinNT and Win2000 -
they both require that ntloader live in a primary FAT or NTFS
partition on the first hard drive.

In my case, I installed WinNT into a logical partition, and WinNT
installed its ntloader into my (primary) DOS FAT partition.

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Jeff Sheinberg  <address@hidden>