Fedora Users — Re: dual booting XP and Linux

I have Win XP (primary HD) and FC5 (slave). I unplugged the hda (windows) and installed linux with Grub bootloader on hdb (grub in the MBR - as default) I then re-plugged the windows hd into the machine, and changed my bios to boot from CD, HDB, in that order. that way XP never has a chance to overwrite the grub on hda.

The grub then gives me the option of booting to XP or FC5.

Hope this helps.

On 4/6/06, Washington, CJ (OCTO) < CJ.Washington@xxxxxx> wrote:

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From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [ mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike McCarty
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 1:26 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: dual booting XP and Linux

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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Mike, thanks for your help, so since I do have Linux successfully installed and I have Windows XP successfully installed but on two different hard drives, how do I make WinXP boot manager understand how to dual boot using Linux as an option?

Is WinXP boot manager a separate tool that I need to purchase?

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