Booting from mutliple OS
I am planning on installing: Suse 9. 3 Pro AMD64 Fedora Core 4 AM64 Windows 2000 Pro Windows XP Pro I use Win2K Pro to be able to fix problems in XP Pro OS. So I usually give it a small area to just boot from.
I am planning on installing:
Suse 9.3 Pro AMD64
Fedora Core 4 AM64
Windows 2000 Pro
Windows XP Pro
I use Win2K Pro to be able to fix problems in XP Pro OS. So I usually give it a small area to just boot from. I want to start working with Suse 9.3 because I have my CNE. Fedora Core 4 will give me Redhat experience and I can get help from several friends, if I have problems.
Over the last weekend, was able to install Redhat 9 and Windows 2003 Server in dual boot on my test server. Here is my method. Will it work with Fedora Core 4.
Base hardware in workstation:
Tyan Thunder K8W
Dual AMD 240 Opterons
3GB DDR400 RAM
LSI Logic MegaRAID 320-2X PCI-X SCSI RAID controller
Adaptec 39160 for LVD tape drives, SCSI-UW CD-ROM, and SCSI-2 DVD-ROM
Visiontek Ti4600 GF4 video
Hercules GTXP 7.1 sound
Adaptec duoconnect USB2/FW controller for Plextor PX-708UF and PX716UF DVD burners
SCSI RAID 1: (34GB)
C: 100 MB FAT32 for common boot files of all operating system
/boot 100MB
/ 8GB
D: Windows 2000 Pro OS NTFS
SCSI RAID 1: (34GB)
E: 14 GB Windows XP Pro OS NTFS
SCSI RAID 10:(102GB)
F: Windows apps and games
SCSI RAID 0: (102GB)
S: 60GB NTFS XP Pro paging, all temp files
21 GB extended Linux partition for Suse 9.3
2 GB /swap Suse 9.3
reamining space for Suse 9.3 other directories
21 GB extended Linux partition for FC4
2GB /swap FC4
remaining space for FC4 other directories
Load order
Create C: parition and install Windows 2000 Pro
Install XP Pro
Install FC4
Install Suse 9.3
Using Grub for boot loader
Will this work?
e-mail me with questions or comments: mckennma@wideopenwest.com
Thank you for any help or comments,
Michael.
Suse 9.3 Pro AMD64
Fedora Core 4 AM64
Windows 2000 Pro
Windows XP Pro
I use Win2K Pro to be able to fix problems in XP Pro OS. So I usually give it a small area to just boot from. I want to start working with Suse 9.3 because I have my CNE. Fedora Core 4 will give me Redhat experience and I can get help from several friends, if I have problems.
Over the last weekend, was able to install Redhat 9 and Windows 2003 Server in dual boot on my test server. Here is my method. Will it work with Fedora Core 4.
Base hardware in workstation:
Tyan Thunder K8W
Dual AMD 240 Opterons
3GB DDR400 RAM
LSI Logic MegaRAID 320-2X PCI-X SCSI RAID controller
Adaptec 39160 for LVD tape drives, SCSI-UW CD-ROM, and SCSI-2 DVD-ROM
Visiontek Ti4600 GF4 video
Hercules GTXP 7.1 sound
Adaptec duoconnect USB2/FW controller for Plextor PX-708UF and PX716UF DVD burners
SCSI RAID 1: (34GB)
C: 100 MB FAT32 for common boot files of all operating system
/boot 100MB
/ 8GB
D: Windows 2000 Pro OS NTFS
SCSI RAID 1: (34GB)
E: 14 GB Windows XP Pro OS NTFS
SCSI RAID 10:(102GB)
F: Windows apps and games
SCSI RAID 0: (102GB)
S: 60GB NTFS XP Pro paging, all temp files
21 GB extended Linux partition for Suse 9.3
2 GB /swap Suse 9.3
reamining space for Suse 9.3 other directories
21 GB extended Linux partition for FC4
2GB /swap FC4
remaining space for FC4 other directories
Load order
Create C: parition and install Windows 2000 Pro
Install XP Pro
Install FC4
Install Suse 9.3
Using Grub for boot loader
Will this work?
e-mail me with questions or comments: mckennma@wideopenwest.com
Thank you for any help or comments,
Michael.
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It worked perfectly. I spread the Linux partitions across the four SCSI RAID arrays. I can boot into all three partitions. I did have to edit grub.conf to other to be Windows. I just logged in as root and made the change. The 100MB FAT parition and adding 100MB /boot partition on same array allowed everything to load. I manually configured all the paritions. First, Grub loads with both SMP FC4 AMD64 version, standard FC4, and Windows. In 20 seconds Windows boots as primary OS. Then, it switches to the Windows boot manager with XP Pro and 2K Pro. XP Pro is primary OS.
I hope this helps someone.
I hope this helps someone.
