Maybe OT, but about dual-booting

John Summerfied debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Nov 28 06:20:28 UTC 2005


Jonathan Gold wrote:
> I am wondering how do I go about dual-booting if I want the two OSes
> to be on two different drives. One drive is Windows XPro, the other
> will be this Fedora linux. Can I have them on two separate harddrives
> and still have a way of choosing at bootup which one to open?

Installing grub (or lilo) into the MBR of hda should work.

You can also install grub (or lilo) to hdb, and use the chainloader 
function in the first grub to load the second.

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