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Re: Dual Booting with SL 5.1 and Wndows XP
From:
Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 15 May 2008 09:03:57 -0500
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[log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi All
> I am facing problem in instaling dual boot with XP and scientific linux
> 5.1. Although earlier I had installed dual booting with SL 5.0 and vista
> and XP many times. Now I am installing it on a new computer HP Compact
> DC7800.
> First I installed XP in a separate partition. Then I started Linux
> Instalation.  I have made /, swap and /home /boot partition and installed
> linux on / partition.In the begining of instalation I have to give linux
> pci=nommconf
>  because otherwise instalation does not proceed. But after that everything
> instaled perfectly. When after instalation I restarted and selected xp it
> is saying that "A disk read error occured."
> Thanks
> kashif

Can you boot into linux?
If so, what is the output of
   fdisk -l
   cat /boot/grub/grub.conf

Troy

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