Windows XP and Linux

[Timothy Murphy]

Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote:

> Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote:
 
>> 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.

Are you actually answering yourself?
The method above sounds to me like a recipe for confusing grub,
since it will have no idea which disk is which
(as specified in /boot/grub/device.map).

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