General :: Run Windows 7 And Rhel5 Server On Same Pc Under Xen?
May 21, 2010
I have rhel5 running ok and windows7 running ok, and currently access both via grub (both os are on separate disks) I want to be able to switch between both without rebooting. xen is installed and working but I cannot configure windows to run as a guest as xen wants an iso or img file.
I am trying to configure a system to boot Windows XP, CentOS 4 and RHEL5. I have one hard drive that contains both Windows XP and CentOS 4, and a separate drive that contains RHEL5. Until recently, I only had one SATA cable, so I could only connect one drive at a time. Under this configuration, everything works fine. When the RHEL5 drive is connected, I can boot into it. When the Windows/CentOS drive is connected, I can dual-boot into either OS. (GRUB was configured on this drive automatically when I installed CentOS into a new partition.)
Opening the box and moving the SATA cable is a lot of trouble, so I finally got a second SATA cable and enabled both SATA0 and SATA1 in the BIOS. I currently have the Windows/Centos drive as the primary, and I can still boot into both Windows/Centos. Now, I want to add RHEL5 to menu, but I can't find the file GRUB is using to present its menu at startup.
I have configured GRUB before on other systems, but I just know the very basics, such as where the grub.conf file should be. So, I spent a whole day reading advice online and asking friends who might have experience with these issues. Here are the steps I have taken so far:
I confirmed there is no /boot/grub directory, and /etc/grub.conf is a broken soft-link to /boot/grub/grub.conf. I did a find for grub.conf, which found nothing. I did a find for menu.lst, which found one item -- an example GRUB config file in /usr/share/doc/grub-0.95. I noticed that when CentOS boots, I see the GRUB commands printed to the screen, the first of which is:
root (hd0,2)
So, I did a grep -R "(hd0" * at the / directory, which also found only one item -- the example menu.lst file in /usr/share/doc/grub-0.95. I discovered that I can go to the command line grub from the grub menu and do:
cat (hd0,2)/grub/grub.conf
The cat command returns a printout of the grub configuration the system is obviously using. I didn't create this file, but the titles are identical to what I see in the GRUB menu, the default boot is Windows, and the timeout is very short. This must be the file. It looks like:
default=2 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.9-89.ELsmp)
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I've also tried making the RHEL5 drive the primary drive. In that case, I can modify the existing /boot/grub/grub.conf file and see my changes at the GRUB boot menu. However, I can't get Windows to boot in this configuration. I've done a lot of google searching on the topic and added map commands to make Windows think it is on the primary drive. But, I'm still unsuccessful on this front as well. I think I'm closer to solving the problem with Windows/CentOS as the primary. However, if you think I will have more success with RHEL5 as the primary drive, I can provide more details as to my current grub.conf on that drive in a later post.
I am not able to install RHEL5 through httpd(apache) server , i checked on the host system , apache server is working fine and i am also able to navigate to my installation dir through browser.
problem: I want to install RHEl5 from guest OS in Vmware: 1.I inserted cd-rom and change bios setting to cd rom 2."linux askmethod" , then select http protocol.
3. but system never retrive files from installtion dir instead retrive from cd rom used for only booting purpose.
I am using RHEL5. Whenever I try to minimize any window, instead of it getting minimized in the bottom panel it get minimized at the right hand bottom corner. So If I want to view that window again, the only option I can view that again is by using Alt+Tab. How can I make these windows to populate in the bottom panel whenver I minimize those.
I have 2 ethernet cards but when I look at the Network configuration in "Hardware Tab" I have another acx wireless network. How to delete that because In my system Idon't have wireless card..probably installed before but want delete it now.
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then windows can ping server and resolve ip address and browsing Internet but can't ping [URL]... result is Request time out. ICMP already enabled in iptables.
I'm developing simple transaction switch using java socket programming and running operating system RHEL5.4 . Now it is completely done and working fine. So I have written the simple shell script to run it on background.
how can we achive more than 8TB size for one LUN.?I am getting following error..
[root@storage ~]# mke2fs -j /dev/VG01/data mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) mke2fs: Filesystem too large. No more than 2**31-1 blocks (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported.
I am configuring apche on rhel5, I got default page successfully, and virtual page too, when I keep only one file index.html in virtual folder it goes well, that file opens correctly, but when I keep other html files except index.html server shows default page again.
I installed RHEL 5.5 with Postfix & openldap. POSTFIX version-2.3.3 openldap-server-2.3.43-12.el5 How to combine ldap with postfix for authentication? How to compile postfix with LDAP and where is the source
I wonder if someone can shade alight on this problem,I have active subscription for rhel4 ES and trying to do a fresh install of rhel5,I was able to download rhel5.3 DVD image from redhat site,burnt it to a DVD but is not booting,i have so far tried on 2 different DVDs but both have failed. I have even downloaded and burnt 1 CD ISO image burnt it still failed.BIOS level is set to cd device first so no problem there,it works!
I'm trying to get RHEL5.3 booting on an IBM Blade off a SAN disk, but it refuses.Our storage is presented on LUN 1 as due to the IBM XIV SAN, we cannot use LUN 0 when presenting volumes. We believe that when the installer tries to configure the boot LUN, it expects to see it on LUN 0 but we can't use that. This leads to a problem where after installed Red Hat, it asks me to remove the CD and reboot, but doesn't load anything other than a cursor blinking at me on the monitor.I currently can't change the LUN ID on the SAN, so I've been trying to amend things to get it to work with no joy.
I am trying to install RHEL5.5 server on Dell Optiplex 360. When its reached at "checking dependencies in packages selected for Installation" its hang. What should I do, I checked cables hardware etc... every thing looks ok.
I am studying RHEL myself, not clear with following topics How to configure DNS slave server in RHEL 5 Whether named.rfc1912.zones file entry can be included in named.conf itslef,if not What is following entry means inside named.conf file
My RHEL5 server is sync with NTP server. But we dont want to follow Day light saving. Is there any option to disable it. Like in windows you can uncheck the option if you dont want to follow day light saving.?
I am a new, working on RHEL5. I am a bit confused on file permissions. I want to know how the setuid, setgid and sticky bit works on linux. And what are the advantages of using these bits? Can anyone explain me the main concepts of using these permissions?
I have a RHEL 5 system running vsftpd. If I do a put to the box, files larger than 1 GB fail around the 1 GB point. Smaller files don't have a problem. If I do a get from the box there is no problem. Both the FTP server and client are plugged into a Netgear switch. I'm trying to create an FTP server and web server so my friends and I can upload our vacation pictures. Ultimately I want my friends to be able to access my server. Right now I'm just trying to make it work between my two machines.
I have a new DL180 G6 server with 4 x 500Gb HDD's. I have configured this into a 1+0 raid array and the configuration utility reports 1Tb space as expected. When I boot off of the RHEL 5 DVD the 4 HDD's are there, not my array?