Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote:
Fedora Core 5 and Windows XP using two Hard drives.
Have another question, I tired and tried to load Linux and XP using two
different Hard Drives. XP loaded
Correctly, and it seemed as if Linux did to. I loaded XP on the primary
drive and linux on the slave drive. I followed the instructions on Fedoras
site on how to dual boot two operating systems and installed grub in the MBR
on hda. Every time I tried to boot the machine, the MBR was I guess ignored
and linux never booted. XP kept booting. So I found a website that
mentioned removing one of the harddrives, installing XP on it, then removing
that harddrive and plugging in the second harddrive as master, install Linux
on that one, then plug in the hard drive with XP as the slave drive. Then
booting into linux and changing the grub.conf file.
I found it easier to let the WinXP boot manager chain load GRUB
than the other way 'round. MicroSoft products like to be in
charge. While GRUB+Linux is not a good match, it is a reasonable
match, and works pretty well, whereas GRUB+WinXP is a poor match,
and the WinXP boot manager is a pretty reasonable tool. Once GRUB
is in memory, it's just GRUB, however it got there, and can load
Linux just fine.
Mike
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