B560:- want to install win xp ,,dual-boot

bought b560. Win 7 ultimate installed. Waant a multiboot sys. with Win XP. Plz. help. Not familiar with computers.
spec: intel core i3, m 380, 2.53ghz, win 7 64 bit. i do hve win xp cd, but not getting booted. PLZ. HELP!!!!!!

John_Velayuth,
Welcome to the forum! A couple of suggestions....
1) As Lenovo tech support will provide support for the preload, if problems develop you may need to recover to the original state. The One Key Recovery function can help, but if you change partitions or wipe out the hidden system partition, this feature may no longer work, so be careful.
2) Yigit's suggestions to first make backups is a good one
3) In order to start off the optical drive, you may need to press F12 during startup to pull up a boot device menu. You could then choose the CD/DVD drive instead of the HDD to boot your XP.
4) I can't walk you through the steps on creating a multiboot environment, but others have already done this in the forum - try a search in the KB or the Windows 7, and XP boards in the general discussion category. Search for discussions on those boards. (Tip : search defaults to the board you are on, so navigate to those boards and do the search there).
If you don't find what you are looking for there, you may also want to do an internet search - many detailed articles have been written on how to set this up.
Other community members may be along with more suggestions...
Best regards,
Mark
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vipin wrote:I have recently bought the y510p , im planning to install Arch , this is my 4th laptop , i had installed Arch in all the other 3 with no problems, but im a bit worried with the installation as this is the first laptop which has EFI , im a linux user for the past 6 years , i started with fedora , now i like Arch , mike documentation is excellent, i just had one question when i had grub , it automatically finds the new kernel when i update (grub.conf/menu.lst gets updated), does rEFInd also do that.
When there is an update to the rEFInd package you need to copy the files across to your ESP from the files contained in /usr/share/refind/ usually you need to copy the refind_x64.efi binary as well as the icons, fonts, and drivers directories. Since there is flexibility in how you configure the kernel and initrd files in terms of where they are located whether you need to do anything else when a new kernel update arrives depends on how you set your system up. If you have the /boot directory as your ESP partition which will then have the kernel and initrd files updated by default then there no need to do anything else when there is a kernel update. If the ESP is then at /boot/EFI and within that is your refind/ directory then that is where the replacement files go if refind-efi gets a pacman update. So it is actually fairly straight forward. If you configure rEFInd to look for kernels in some other directory than /boot/ then you may need to copy the files there after a kernel update but there is more information in the arch wiki about this.
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[2014-06-18 18:48] [PACMAN] upgraded radvd (1.12-1 -> 1.13-1)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd UEFI application has been installed at /usr/share/refind/refind_*.efi
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Other UEFI applications have been installed at /usr/share/refind/tools_*/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] UEFI drivers have been installed at /usr/share/refind/drivers_*/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Copy the efi application (according to your UEFI ARCH)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] and /usr/share/refind/refind.conf-sample to a sub-directory of <EFISYS>/EFI/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] as refind.conf and add an entry to firmware boot menu using efibootmgr
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] or mactel-boot (for Macs)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd Icons have been installed at /usr/share/refind/icons/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd Fonts have been installed at /usr/share/refind/fonts/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] HTML Documentation is available at /usr/share/refind/docs/html/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] More info: [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders#Using_rEFInd[/url]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [PACMAN] upgraded refind-efi (0.8.1-1 -> 0.8.2-1)
I hope that helps.
By the way you can also boot uefi using grub and in fact you can get rEFInd to chainload grub as a backup bootloader as an added safety factor and have both rEFInd as well as grub installed simultaneously. How that can be done is explained in the thread at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=181906
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title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.23-r3
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root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.23-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/hda2 init=/bin/bb
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Last edited by violagirl23 (2008-01-30 04:12:20)

tesjo wrote:
Basically right but you should add
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kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hdb2 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
Arch uses a newer library I forget the name, which identifies drives as sdX instead of hdX
Well, I got it working. Thanks! Turns out this is what I needed:
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Can I install Win XP with Boot Camp?

I have a need to install a copy of Win XP but Boot Camp doesn't seem to support it. Is there any way around this?

Not the answer I wanted to hear but it was what I expected. I have Parallels but I really needed the Boot Camp installation.
Thanks,
Rick

Installing Arch WinXP Dual-Boot

Hello! I'm new with Arch-Linux.
I'm trying to install Arch with Windows XP. I looked at the guide and several threads but I can not solve my problem. I make an installation in "Legacy" because my drive is IDE. I have installed Win XP. I do manually the partitions partitions / boot, /, / swap, / home, all logic, after the XP ntfs. And then I install the grub in the MBR which is on the XP partition. When booting, I get a dual-boot XP and I started without problems, but when I boot Arch I get the following problem:
FileSystem CHECK FAILED
And here I have not managed to solve anything, I have consulted several forum threads where people could think the same thing, wiki, but I have not been solved. If anyone can help me with the installation, or if I am wrong partition table or something, I would be very helpful.
Sorry about my English, it isn't my frist language.
Last edited by xunele (2009-11-13 11:48:32)

I can see two issues here:
I install the grub in the MBR which is on the XP partition
The MBR is not on any partition, is sits at the beginning of your disk. Partitions have bootsectors. And you should not install anything into the boot sector of the XP partition, since that will make XP unable to boot. Wikipedia is quite good on these topics.
Secondly, /boot must be on a primary partition.

B560:- want to install win xp ,,dual-boot

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