On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 18:46, Giulio Sorrentino wrote: > David Le wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I have 2 separated disks and 1 PC. > >-Disk 1 installed Windows XP originally. > >-Disk 2 installed FC1 by me separately. > > > >Currently, I have to swap between Disk 1 and Disk 2 > >when I boot-up my PC. It is very inconvenient so I > >want to setup dual-boot such that I am able to select > >the OS at the boot-up time and, in the futre, I can > >always switch back to single boot with Windows XP disk > >only. > >I'm not sure if Linux boot loader will change any > >thing on the master boot record of Disk1 (Windows XP) > >such that I cannot boot Disk1 without Disk2 attached? > >I still need Disk 1 for other critical tasks so I'd > >like to leave Disk 1 untouched as much as I can. > > > >Your answer is appreciated. > > > >--david le. > > > > > I assume that you want to put linux as primary master and windows as > primary slave. > > What you want to do is not safe: windows xp has been installed on > primary master as linux; so every "hard riferiment" (if they exist) on > windows are on primary master: if you switch and they exists are lost; > so DO A BACKUP COPY BEFORE START (i suggest you to do an hard disk image). > If on linux hard disk are any vaft/ntfs partition destroy it or reformat > in any filesystem that windows does not recognize. > > If you want to keep them separate i suggest you to boot with the > recovery console and reinstall windows boot loader as primary slave. > After you have to control that the c:\boot.ini file has been modified > for searching windows directory on primary slave: if it don't you have > to modify it. > You should have a line similar to: > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(0)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows XP > Professional" /fastdetect > I suggest you to do a bertpe (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/) cd and > integrate in it the norton ghost 8. > > Then try to boot and if it works you simply have to modify the grub > configuration as suggested; if it does not works you have to restore the > disk as primary master and run norton ghost to have "roll back" with the > hard disk image. I set up the two disks separately one at a time as the master disk. Then I made my Win98 disk the slave with the jumper and plugged them both in. This is what I found to work in grub for Win98: title win98 map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 There is lots of examples on the web, you may just need to find the one that works for you and your OS. Tim...
