<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2658.34"> <TITLE>Windows XP and Linux</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [<A HREF="mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com</A>] 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? </BODY> </HTML>