> -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Snyder [mailto:swsnyder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 06 September, 2007 11:45 > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Cc: McGuffey, David C. > Subject: Re: Dual-booting F7 and WinXP on separate harddisks > > On Thursday 06 September 2007 9:49:49 am McGuffey, David C. wrote: > > MBR, all managed by lilo. That install went mostly automatic and I > > didn't have to tweak any settings in the BIOS or lilo...it all just > > worked. > > > > I've looked at a bunch of dual-boot guidance but I'm not finding what I > > need to deal with two separate hd each with their own os and MBR. Maybe > > it is there, I'm just not understanding it. > > > > This should be easy...what do I need to do to get grub to chainload > > WinXP on hd1? > > I have a similar setup, with F7 on sda (1st SCSI hard disk) and Win2K on > sdb (2nd SCSI hard disk). > > The trick is that Windows wants to boot from the 1st hard disk. The > solution is to have GRUB tell it that the 2nd HD is the 1st one. See > below for a snippet of my config file. > > Hope this helps. > > ------ > > title Fedora (2.6.22.4-65.fc7) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda1 vga=0x305 > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.img > > title Win2K/SP4 > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > map (hd0) (hd1) > map (hd1) (hd0) > chainloader +1 Thanks. I read that in several dual-boot HowTo docs...but all were dated and discussed this problem with Win 9x. In the past I've had WinXP boot from a partition on the 2nd or 3rd hard disk, so I assumed that Microsoft fixed this cone-headed problem after Win 9x. I'll give it a try tonight. Dave McGuffey Principal Information System Security Engineer SAIC, IISBU, Columbia, MD 410.865.7972 (w)
