Dual-booting F7 and WinXP on separate harddisks
McGuffey, David C.
DAVID.C.MCGUFFEY at saic.com
Thu Sep 6 16:18:09 UTC 2007
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Snyder [mailto:swsnyder at insightbb.com]
> Sent: 06 September, 2007 11:45
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> 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)
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