XP/RedHat dual boot problems

[denali]

I'm trying to get RH 7.2 to dual boot on a New Dell Inspiron 4100 that
came with XP over NTFS. I used PM7 to repartition since parted does not handle NTFS. After going through the install I can boot RH on using a boot floppy and XP boots fine. I then created boot sect and put this C:\ and then edited boot.ini to prompt for RH. Everything works except when I choose RH to boot from the system just puts an _ and hangs.

Booting RH from the floppy shows the following disk format.

/dev/hda
/dev/hda1 FAT
/dev/hda2 NTFS
/dev/hda3 Extended
/dev/hda5 ext2 /boot
/dev/hda6 ext2 /
/dev/hda7 linux-swap
/dev/hda4 FAT

Not sure what could be the problem, I created boosect.lnx using /dev/hda5
and after putting it on C: changed the attributes to +h +s.

I let RH automatically create the partitions it needed from free space and now when I start PM7 it says LBA and CHS values are different and askes me if I should fix it.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Go through the FAQ on that here and see if you missed anything/try it again.

 

[denali]

Well, I have tried this two times after the second time getting the same result I thought I would defer to the gurus on AT.

The thing that has me curious is why PM7 reports these errors.

 

[cleverhandle]

I've had the same problem, but thought it might be related to my onboard RAID controller. Has anybody actually gotten the FAQ's advice to work with XP? It seems like most of the people that refer to it are running Linux/2k systems.

 

[cleverhandle]

Another thought... try reinstalling RH, but this time create all your partitions using XP's disk utility. Of course you'll still need to change their type using linux's fdisk, but I've gotten around some problems doing things that way in the past.