On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:00:51AM -0500, Keven Ring wrote: > Preston Crawford wrote: > > >I have a nice, well-running, well behaved Fedora installation. I'm > >thinking of buying Windows because I need to learn ASP.NET and Mono, for > >all that it does well, has some shortcomings. Plus there's no good > >editor for ASP.NET. Anyway, that's the "why would you want to do this" > >part. As far as how I would do it, I have a second hard drive. I think I > >can just install the second hard drive with Windows and then point Grub > >at that drive as a possible boot point. Is that true? Or will Windows > >want to erase the MBR of HDA and thus this won't be possible at all > >unless I swap the places of the hard drives and reinstall GRUB onto the > >new HDA? > > > >Either way, I'd like to do this (assuming I even choose to do it) in a > >fashion that doesn't ruin my Linux install. > > > >Preston > > > > > > > > > MS Windows does not like being on a secondary hard drive. Not entirely. Mess-DOS and its descendants (W9x, Wme, etc.) have to boot from the primary partition of the first hard drive. NT does not descend from Mess-DOS, and can boot from any primary partition (and for all I know, perhaps any partition at all). As XP is descended from NT, it should boot from any hard drive. > > My experience has been that you need to follow this procedure: > > 1) Take out the Fedora Harddrive > 2) Replace with soon-to-be MS Windows Harddrive > 3) Install Windows > 4) Move the Windows Harddrive to the second bay, install Fedora > Harddrive in the primary bay > 5) Add an entry similar to the following to your grub.conf so that you > can boot MS Windows: > title Win2K > map (hd1) (hd0) > map (hd0) (hd1) > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > The first two lines "swap" the primary and secondary drive, thus making > Windows think it's still in the primary hard drive slot. > > Good luck.. > -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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