dual booting XP and Linux

[Stephen Esquibel]

I have Win XP (primary HD) and FC5 (slave).  I unplugged the hda (windows)
and installed linux with Grub bootloader on hdb (grub in the MBR - as
default)  I then re-plugged the windows hd into the machine, and changed my
bios to boot from CD, HDB, in that order.  that way XP never has a chance to
overwrite the grub on hda.

The grub then gives me the option of booting to XP or FC5.

Hope this helps.

On 4/6/06, Washington, CJ (OCTO) <CJ.Washington at dc.gov> wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [
> mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com <fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com>] On
> Behalf Of Mike McCarty
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 1:26 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: dual booting XP and Linux
>
> Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote:
> > Fedora Core 5 and Windows XP using two Hard drives.
> >
> >
> >
> > Have another question, I tired and tried to load Linux and XP using two
> > different Hard Drives.  XP loaded
> >
> > Correctly, and it seemed as if Linux did to. I loaded XP on the primary
> > drive and linux on the slave drive.  I followed the instructions on
> Fedoras
> > site on how to dual boot two operating systems and installed grub in the
> MBR
> > on hda.  Every time I tried to boot the machine, the MBR was I guess
> ignored
> > and linux never booted.  XP kept booting.  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.
>
> I found it easier to let the WinXP boot manager chain load GRUB
> than the other way 'round. MicroSoft products like to be in
> charge. While GRUB+Linux is not a good match, it is a reasonable
> match, and works pretty well, whereas GRUB+WinXP is a poor match,
> and the WinXP boot manager is a pretty reasonable tool. Once GRUB
> is in memory, it's just GRUB, however it got there, and can load
> Linux just fine.
>
> Mike
> --
>
> Mike, thanks for your help, so since I do have Linux successfully
> installed and I have Windows XP successfully installed but on two different
> hard drives, how do I make WinXP boot manager understand how to dual boot
> using Linux as an option?
>
> Is WinXP boot manager a separate tool that I need to purchase?
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