i made my best effort to install a dual boot with xp and tinycore.
i use this tutorial as a guide:
http://www.howtoforge.com/dual_boot_windows_xp_vista_ubuntu_feistythere's only minor differences:
1. i use gparted to prepare the partitions
2. i install xp first
3. i'm installing tinycore instead of ubuntu
i thought i did everything correctly. i made the necessary substitutions with the commands to accomodate the partition difference (the tinycore system was being installed on hda4 instead of hda1, so all hda1's were replaces with hda4).
all the tinycore installation command went without an error
and i thought i was finished, but when i boot the computer without the disc, the only entry in grub was tinycore. so i went back to xp and did what i thought was a repair install (my first ever, yeah, i know, i botched it). now when i boot the computer, the computer boots into xp. when i boot with the disc, it boots into tinycore, and has all my installed programs (arora, leafpad, xfe file manager). so there can't be that much wrong, i would tend to think.
here's my fdisk -l.
tc@box:~$ sudo su
root@box:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 17.3 GB, 17360093184 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2110 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 956 7679038+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 957 1324 2955960 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 1325 1409 682762+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 1410 2110 5630782+ b Win95 FAT32
root@box:~#
what i ultimately want, and i'm able to do this with ubuntu and xp, is to boot into a grub screen that has tinycore and xp listed, but waits for me to choose (i edit the menu.lst file)
if i have to start over, it's no big deal.
how do i fix this right?
thanks, command-line wizards.