Triple Booting with Linux
Question:
I have already a dual boot system, with windows xp and RHEL.
Now consider two situations :
1) I want to install Windows7 as triple boot with xp and RHEL. But i
doubt, this may corrupt the grub or the bootloader and some problem
may arise.
2) Second, if i want to just upgrade from XP to windows7, resulting in
dual boot of my system with windows7and RHEL. But as in upgrading, the
whole xp (full C drive) is replaced and moved to other location
including data. In that case, will there be any chance of corrupting
the RHEL grub or problem in booting of either the RHEL or windows 7 ??
Answer:
Yes, the both doubt you raise could be possible, Possibilities that you can do as follows:
I have already a dual boot system, with windows xp and RHEL.
Now consider two situations :
1) I want to install Windows7 as triple boot with xp and RHEL. But i
doubt, this may corrupt the grub or the bootloader and some problem
may arise.
2) Second, if i want to just upgrade from XP to windows7, resulting in
dual boot of my system with windows7and RHEL. But as in upgrading, the
whole xp (full C drive) is replaced and moved to other location
including data. In that case, will there be any chance of corrupting
the RHEL grub or problem in booting of either the RHEL or windows 7 ??
Answer:
Yes, the both doubt you raise could be possible, Possibilities that you can do as follows:
1. if you have another hard disk then remove one and add another and install win 7 then attached first one and make slave other one. then start Linux then add manually entry in the grub.conf file with root(hd1,0) chainloader +1 statement under third boot title.
2. if you don't have another HDD then install/upgrade the Win 7, it will not corrupt your Linux you need to repair your grub after install/upgrade. using grub-install command in rescue mode
NOTE: you need take care of the partition numbers and corresponding there settings in the gurb.conf file.
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