Dual boot

David Rose DRose at Proviss.com
Sat Oct 9 08:43:13 EDT 2010


  John, does "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" wipeout the OS?  I don't seem to have 
anything on my XP drive anymore.


> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:03 PM, David Rose<DRose at proviss.com>  wrote:
>> John, you are correct and I fixed my typo, however now it lists the boot
>> parameters and then locks up.
>>
>> I tried changing it to (hd2,0) and it tells me it's an invalid drive so it
>> looks like it's seeing the drive OK.
>>
>> Thanx ... Dave
>>
>>
> Maybe try booting to the CentOS side and then run 'fdisk -l /dev/sdb'.
>   If your Windows disk originally came with the Dell maybe there is a
> Dells tools/utilities partition or something like that on the disk.
> Your Windows partition could be (hd1,1), for example.  Just a thought.
>


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