2 OS on 1 Hard Drive

rcrq500 · 12-Nov-2006, 07:45 PM #1

My mom has Linux and Windows XP on 1 hard drive. It is giving her all kinds of problems. Is this normal?

prunejuice · 12-Nov-2006, 08:20 PM #2

What problems?

rcrq500 · 12-Nov-2006, 08:23 PM #3

Mainly booting problems

prunejuice · 12-Nov-2006, 08:40 PM #4

Can you be more specific?

**valis** · 12-Nov-2006, 08:42 PM #5

there shouldn't be any issues whatsoever. We've got probably 150 dual boot linux/windows machines at work; I wouldn't know the first thing about fixing the linux side, however.

And we do need just a few more details, as prune suggested.

saikee · 13-Nov-2006, 10:53 AM #6

I am dead meat if there can be booting problem with just two OSs in one hard disk.

The second last link documents one PC with 4 hard disks. The first "hda" one has 60 partitions all filled with one OS per partition. It is among the 100+ systems that Grub, a Linux boot loader, has to boot.

fenderfreek · 13-Nov-2006, 03:45 PM #7

Give us as exact of a description as you possibly can, and I'll be quite sure we can solve your problem. There's very little that happens that someone on here hasn't seen.

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