[CentOS] Dual boot in CentOS 4.4

Andrew Allen andy.allen at virgin.net
Wed Jun 13 21:05:29 UTC 2007


Thanks Akemi,
I checked the /boot/grub/grub.conf file and it did have those lines.
Then I realised that I had to press a key to get into the sub-menu
giving the boot options! So all is well - thanks.

Andy

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 14:30 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On 6/12/07, Andrew Allen <andy.allen at virgin.net> wrote:
> > I've recently upgraded from RedHat 9 to CentOS 4.4. With RH9 I had a
> > dual boot system with Windows XP (RH9 as the default of course!), which
> > was automatically set up when I installed RH9 in the remaining partition
> > after I'd installed XP. However, I appear to have lost my dual boot with
> > CentOS 4.4 (no option to boot into DOS now), even though I still have
> > the Windows XP partition, so how can I (re-) set up the dual boot?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andy
> 
> Check your /boot/grub/grub.conf file.  Does it have lines like these?
> 
> title winXP
>         rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>         chainloader +1
> 
> (This is just an example, yours may be different)
> 
> Akemi
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