Fedora Core 2 and WinXP dual boot
Timothy Payne
tim at tmpco.com
Fri Aug 27 06:22:19 UTC 2004
There is a bug in FC2 that reports the geometry of the drives
differently than the physical drive. (why this is not first on the list
to fix I don't know) What I do is have my FC2 drive as the master and
the win98 as a slave but you have to change grub to fake out the win
drive to think it's #1 to boot win98. If all else fails and my kids
games won't play I can just unplug the master FC2 and just run with the
win drive, since windoze can't play well with others, I'd give it a D-
in citizenship. But my case only takes 2 screws and the whole side
slides off and I'm done in 30 sec. But I only have the kids every other
weekend, and it would be a big pain to do every day.
Tim...
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 11:08, Beri, Rohit wrote:
> All:
>
> I have read a few post on how this is done and few things one needs to look out for... In my situation I have 2 hdd for my dell latitude, one running WinXP and the other Fedora Core 2, I was swapping HDD before.
>
> Just yesterday I bought a media bay so I can plug fedora Core 2 as a second hdd. I was wonderding how to configure without formatting fedora core hdd to be able to chose which OS i want to boot to when I start the machine.
>
> Any pointers ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -B
>
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