<div>On 4/6/06, Washington, CJ (OCTO) <<a href="mailto:CJ.Washington@dc.gov" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">CJ.Washington@dc.gov </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="direction: ltr;">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. </div><div style="direction: ltr;"> 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? </div></blockquote></div>You can boot so many ways into a dual-boot system, but you will be using only one of them. 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 <a href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> fedora-list archive</a>. open april or march month's view by <a href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2006-April/thread.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">[ Thread ]</a> and do ctrl-f in your browser for what U want to search. Other way is <a href="http://marc.10east.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> MARC: Mailing list ARChives</a> -- Anil Kumar Shrama