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choasforages:
as for backing things up, just back up important files, things that are "hard to find" like winex and stuff, and other cool things, just don't do something stupied and backup all the userlands or something like that. and yes, like takes a long time to learn.

lazygamer:
Yo yo dudez im still here, im feeling rather unanswered... helpz0r! -Lazy's thread

Well I can understand if some of these questions are stumpers, but how to dual boot XP/Linux from a Grub boot menu when the standard issue wind0ze boot commands don't wanna work? That should be EASY for all those linux d00dz here.

No I can't throw XP in the garbage.  :D

voidmain:
Hopefully yer not waiting on me to answer. I hope to never find out how to do it because I plan on never, ever, ever, never, not in a million years, ever touch XPee.

But I know I have seen plenty of people doing it without a problem. Have you tried searching Google? Or your distro's web site? I'm not trying to be unhelpful.

TheQuirk:
It happened to my friend a few times. XP stops working after you install Grub. But it works with Lilo.

Pff, go figure.

Ice-9:
The following might help you out, even if Redhat is used in the example below, it should work with Libranet too since I think the Grub and Lilo configs are the same from one distro to another.
here's the link if you want to check out the whole thing.
http://isdc.unige.ch/~ebisawa/linux.html

Redhat 7.3 is installed. When the machine is started, "grub" screen appears, but Windows XP is gone!! Start Redhat, and edit /bootd/grub/menu.list. It looks like as follows:

  # grub.conf generated by anaconda
  #
  # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
  # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
  #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
  #          root (hd0,1)
  #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
  #          initrd /initrd-version.img
  #boot=/dev/hda
  default=0
  timeout=10
  splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
  title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)
  root (hd0,1)
  kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hda3 hdd=ide-scsi
  initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img


Append the following:

  title Windows XP
  root (hd0,0)
  makeactive
  chainloader +1

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