Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote:
> Fedora Core 5 and Windows XP using two Hard drives.
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> Have another question, I tired and tried to load Linux and XP using two
> different Hard Drives. XP loaded
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> 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.
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?
There is no particular demerit in either (as of now as I know it).
U said Win XP Boots using grub but fedora does not.
[Make backup beforehand - of file U get-set to change ]
[# cp grub.conf grub.conf.bak]
U have to get to file /boot/grub/grub.conf and change something in the line after title
root (hd1,0) <- instead of anything else, that is in ur case. >
<- hd0 is ur first disk hd1 is ur second disk >
<- ,0) is ur first partition and ,1) would be the second on that disk) >
<- this is how grub works >
Now how to get to grub.conf and do editing is explained in this list so many times.
can U please search. even how to search is discussed.
One Easy way is to go to fedora-list archive.
open april or march month's view by [ Thread ]
and do ctrl-f in your browser for what U want to search.
Other way is MARC: Mailing list ARChives
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Anil Kumar Shrama
