Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote: > Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote: >> 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. Are you actually answering yourself? The method above sounds to me like a recipe for confusing grub, since it will have no idea which disk is which (as specified in /boot/grub/device.map). -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland