I agree, and that is the method I took. The only thing is that I didn't overwrite the MBR on the Win drive, and I had my bios boot to /hdb. But I had an issue with Anaconda to where if the other drive was connected it only allowed me to write Grub to the first sector of /hdb1 (with partitions). If the drive was disconnected, the MBR of hdb was available. So I installed FC5, booted to it made sure everything was in order and configured the way I like it. Then I edited
grub.conf as stated with the chainloader statement and shut down, connected the other drive back, and went on about my happy dual-boot life.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Craig White
</b> <<a href="mailto:craigwhite@azapple.com">craigwhite@azapple.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 20:54 -0400, Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote:<br>><br>><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: <a href="mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com">fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com</a><br>> [mailto:
<a href="mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com">fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>] On Behalf Of Timothy Murphy<br>> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:25 PM<br>> To: <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com
</a><br>> Subject: RE: dual booting XP and Linux<br>><br>> Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote:<br>><br>> > I found it easier to let the WinXP boot manager chain load GRUB<br>> > than the other way 'round. MicroSoft products like to be in
<br>> > charge. While GRUB+Linux is not a good match, it is a reasonable<br>> > match, and works pretty well, whereas GRUB+WinXP is a poor match,<br>> > and the WinXP boot manager is a pretty reasonable tool.
<br>><br>> That's nonsense.<br>> Millions of people are using to grub to boot Linux and/or Windows.<br>> It works perfectly well.<br>><br>> It's easier to install Windows first,<br>> but if you install Linux (with grub) first
<br>> it is a good idea to save the MBR with something like<br>><br>> dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr bs=512 count=1<br>><br>> Then you can replace it afterwards (if you want) with<br>><br>> dd of=/dev/hda if=mbr bs=512 count=1
<br>><br>> --<br>> Timothy Murphy<br>> e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ <a href="http://birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie">birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie</a><br>> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366<br>> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
<br>><br>> To who ever wants to be a smart ass,<br>><br>> First of all, I was the one who posed the original question. Look,<br>> I'm here because I assumed that there were actually people on this<br>> list that could help me because in no way am I remotely a Linux guru
<br>> or even novice. I just got into this just like everyone else on this<br>> list who once started out very novice with Linux and Unix.<br>><br>> It's cool, I'll figure it out eventually.<br>><br>> Thanks to everyone for all your help,
<br>----<br>I like the idea of removing the hard drives because it is safe. Your<br>Windows hard drive cannot be overwritten or damaged because it is not<br>there.<br><br>If you follow those instructions and put the Windows HD back in as a
<br>slave drive...until you fix grub to allow you to boot Windows, you won't<br>be able to boot into Windows.<br><br>My inclination would be to leave the Windows drive as primary master,<br>make the Linux drive primary slave. Take care to install Linux only to
<br>primary slave (/dev/hdb) but have grub do it's thing automatically,<br>which would over right the MBR on the primary master which would give<br>you a grub boot choice of Linux or Windows.<br><br>Craig<br><br>As for Timothy and Mike...they don't shy from their opinions but they
<br>aren't dumb either. It's not about you.<br><br>Oh and by the way...your html mail is almost unreadable...could you<br>please post in plain text emails to the list?<br><br>--<br>fedora-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">
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