[KLUG Members] Dual boot problem on home computer

[Kevin Wixson]

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I think Dell's come with a very tiny partition at the front of the drive 
that does some funky stuff, which might explain why your original setup was 
configured in a nonstandard way. Do you think it would work to pull your 
Linux partition on to a second drive, disconnect that drive, repartition 
and reformat the primary drive, install Windows on it, then change the 
partition with PM to make room for your Linux partitions (behind the Win 
partion-Win has to be the first line,) connect the second drive, drag the 
partitions back over then reconfigure the MBR with GRUB for dual boot?

I don't know anything, by the way. Don't take my word on anything.


At 01:55 PM 4/28/2004 -0400, MPs wrote:

>[snip]
> > > loaded, the response time was normal, but 14 hours is a bit long to wait,
> > > even for a Redmond product. So, reluctantly, I had to put the 
> original drive
> > > back in as the boot drive on the primary IDE controller.
> >
> > Yep, that legacy OS *MUST* be on the primary drive of the first
> > channel.  Period.  Thats the way it works.  I'm mildly impressed that it
> > booted at all.
>
>Interesting, considering that Dell shipped my laptop with said legacy OS on
>the secondary master and a DVD on the primary. Consider my supprise when
>fdisk told me /that/ bit.
>
>--Miles P
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