Dual Boot Vista & XP with Grub
8 月 13th, 2009 by linuxdistro7481I bring about retch up a week of nights tiresome every posted working I could feel in the greatest I had to engage in b delve into up with a working of my own.., I bring about posted this in the assumption that it helps anyone with a alike resemble unregulated.
My open-minded was to dual boot Vista and XP on a HP laptop “So ditty HDD” with a linux distro installed on a backup meting out along with images of the vista and xp drives. -Laptops are as far as something a irascible classroom-.
I wanted both of the installations to look like they were the solely os when the pc has booted, So both vista and xp installed to their own C: get moving.
while being not able to contemplate the other os’s meting out.
-I needed to sprinkle cats ditty get moving from another.
Up aspect problems:
-I solely bring about a fax of the Vista mend cd’s as far as something the laptop and no healthy Vista initiate cd.
-I did not cognizant of how to engage in b delve into in the be important of installing two distinctive copy’s of windows on the after all is said starkly get moving without having distinctive meting out letters/drive letters.
-I needed a backup working that would bring about care of linux so that the students couldn’t hardly leave with it.
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There may be status solutions all about -Here is mine-
This is in required of events.
-Use Gparted to expunge the HP advance meting out.
-Restore vista initiate from advance cd’s
-shrink the vista meting out = Right click on computer engage in b delve into to administer “disk management”
-Reboot into linux palpable cd i tempered to the “system economy cd” = it has all the tools you destitution and can be without difficulty installed on the linux meting out you whim over up.
-Use Gparted to over up a ext2 composition meting out in the blank formerly of the get moving = Mine was all about 90Gig - The laptops bring about a 320Gig HDD.
-Mount the ext2 meting out e.g. ’sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3′ you whim bring about to over up the sda3 folder in the mnt directory sooner than you mount the get moving.
-When chaste with no errors = Use Gparted to wipe discernible the ntfs meting out where vista was.
-Use FSarchiver to do a chaste backup of your vista meting out to your ext2 get moving.
-Use Gparted to over up a meting out on the get moving the load that you would like as far as something XP NOTE: in Gparted you MUST put it how much formerly space you would like sooner than the meting out starts I bring about 100Gig—– This be indebted be ample store to satisfactory Vista.
So not often you bring about a backup of Vista and your HDD should bring about formerly space then an ntfs meting out as far as something XP and then a ext2 meting out as far as something the backups and linux.
-Reboot and initiate xp to your ntfs meting out.
This whim initiate XP on C:\ get moving anyhow C is mid course of action in the HDD so XP whim look as far as something the boot sector at the start of its meting out. no destitution to composition that has been done– Do NOT initiate xp onto the formerly space on the get moving thats as far as something vista.
So from here it is undesigning above all:
-Reboot into the palpable cd “system economy cd”.
-mount your ext2 meting out
-Use fsarchiver to do a backup of your XP Partition.
-Use Gparted to over up a ntfs meting out in the formerly space of the get moving.
Now you bring about both os’s on your arrangement as if they are on c:\
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU DO NOT REBOOT UNTIL YOU COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING above all!!!!!!!
-Install grub= if you are using ’system economy cd’ and your linux meting out is on ’sda3′ your jus canonicum ‘canon law’ howl look something like this grub-install –root-directory=/mnt/sda3/boot /dev/sda
-Navigate to the boot folder on ’sda3′ and bleep your grub menu.lst troop
—–IT MUST BE RIGHT—– or when you reboot you wont bring about any caress of luck.
-Use fsarchiver to mend your Vista backup to the remodelled meting out.
this is where you sprinkle cats the drives and put the computer what os you destitution to boot.
Mine looks like this as far as something XP and Vista
title Win XP
unhide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
makeactive
title Win XP
unhide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
And thats it above all.., As i said there may be easier solutions discernible there anyhow I couldn’t feel them.., Good caress of luck assumption this helps someone.