On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 12:25 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > 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. ---- it really doesn't much matter - generally, it's whatever is more comfortable for the user but the user is likely to get more and better help using grub on this list than the Windows bootloader. In general, I have found dual-booting a waste of time and energy and can only see the point of it on laptops...for people not wanting to give up the Windows option. Craig
