How do you reinstall Linux in a dual boot scenario?

[keith smith]

Sorry,  I installed FC5 on a dual boot debian / win95 machine.  When I would start the machine it went right into FC5 - no menu. I was able to modify the grub config file and comment out "hidden" and then the next time I booted i saw the menu.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

As I recall when I initially installed debian I was given the option of including the "other" O/S ... that was a while ago and it was lilo.

I do not recall being given an option to configure grub during this install.  I actually thought I had aborted the install, which was months ago, until I tried to boot the machine and it booted into FC5.

Keith

Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote: You guys keepo saying the same thing.  Yes, most/all distros will add windows to the grub menu.  What not one of you has clearly stated is that you are talking about a reinstall rather than an original install of linux to dual boot with XP.  Since few, if any, of you are likely to have actually have done this, I will create a dual booting machine and then reinstall the linux to test that scenario sometime this week just to be sure 

On 9/26/06, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote: I recently installed FC5 and it added "hidden" to the grub config. This cause the menu to not appear.  Commented it out and windows was listed in the menu as "other".



 JT Moree <moreejt at pcxperience.com> wrote:  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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Patrick C wrote:
> I think it might depend on the distro (the detection I mean). Some can
> add something to the list as "other," even if they don't know what it 
> is. Others might look for an active NTFS partition and assume Windows, I
> don't know. In any case, it's way easier to add it after the fact. I'm
> not sure what management tools Ubuntu uses, but in SuSe, it's cake. If 

K/Ubuntu will add the windows bootup to the grub menu.  I've not seen
many installers that WONT add windows to the boot many.

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