-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote: > -----Original Message----- > 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 > > -- > 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? can I offer you some advice? First of all, thank you for bottom-posting to the list. Could I however ask you to put your posts *above* the signature separator on the mail you are responding to? (ie *above* the -- line). I have had to cut and paste from your previous mail as some mail clients automatically remove signatures from previous posts. This usually means everything below the sig separator. Thanks for listening. :) now onto your question... the windows boot manager is included with WinXP (it's how the OS starts up). If you want to make it boot linux too (i.e. offer you a choice), have a look at this... http://linuxgazette.net/issue61/padala.html http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/16/1919205&tid=129&tid=49 http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/ntldr.php the second one seems most recent. Any help? Stuart - -- Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFENkZVamPtx1brPQ4RAk2ZAJ9/kmc7jE5GnqXbNGn9Ifhd3ue+AwCfbEgg /Hd53xaQQzl6MaMHGIcRkI8= =5qUH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
