dual booting XP and Linux

Fri Apr 7 15:14:53 UTC 2006

I used that advanced configuration option.  the options were

/dev/hda - MBR
/dev/hdb1

This always failed at partition time.

When I unplugged hda the options were greyed out, but listed as

Grub will be installed to
/dev/hdb - MBR

This passed.  There shouldn't be a difference, but I posted a bug to the
anaconda team since the above failure generated a unhandled exception.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188111

I don't worry too much now, since I'm booting fine into GRUB and from there
to either FC5 or XP.

On 4/7/06, Dan <grinnz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Stephen Esquibel wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > On 4/6/06, *Craig White * <craigwhite at azapple.com
> > <mailto:craigwhite at azapple.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 20:54 -0400, Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote:
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > -----Original Message-----
> >     > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> >     <mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com>
> >     > [mailto: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> >     <mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com>] On Behalf Of Timothy Murphy
> >     > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:25 PM
> >     > To: fedora-list at redhat.com <mailto:fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >     > Subject: RE: dual booting XP and Linux
> >     >
> >     > Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote:
> >     >
> >     > > 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.
> >     >
> >     > That's nonsense.
> >     > Millions of people are using to grub to boot Linux and/or Windows.
> >     > It works perfectly well.
> >     >
> >     > It's easier to install Windows first,
> >     > but if you install Linux (with grub) first
> >     > it is a good idea to save the MBR with something like
> >     >
> >     >         dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr bs=512 count=1
> >     >
> >     > Then you can replace it afterwards (if you want) with
> >     >
> >     >         dd of=/dev/hda if=mbr bs=512 count=1
> >     >
> >     > --
> >     > Timothy Murphy
> >     > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
> >     <http://birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>
> >     > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> >     > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
> >     >
> >     > To who ever wants to be a smart ass,
> >     >
> >     > First of all, I was the one who posed the original
> question.  Look,
> >     > I'm here because I assumed that there were actually people on this
> >     > list that could help me because in no way am I remotely a Linux
> >     guru
> >     > or even novice.  I just got into this just like everyone else on
> >     this
> >     > list who once started out very novice with Linux and Unix.
> >     >
> >     > It's cool, I'll figure it out eventually.
> >     >
> >     > Thanks to everyone for all your help,
> >     ----
> >     I like the idea of removing the hard drives because it is safe. Your
> >     Windows hard drive cannot be overwritten or damaged because it is
> not
> >     there.
> >
> >     If you follow those instructions and put the Windows HD back in as a
> >     slave drive...until you fix grub to allow you to boot Windows, you
> >     won't
> >     be able to boot into Windows.
> >
> >     My inclination would be to leave the Windows drive as primary
> master,
> >     make the Linux drive primary slave. Take care to install Linux
> >     only to
> >     primary slave (/dev/hdb) but have grub do it's thing automatically,
> >     which would over right the MBR on the primary master which would
> give
> >     you a grub boot choice of Linux or Windows.
> >
> >     Craig
> >
> >     As for Timothy and Mike...they don't shy from their opinions but
> they
> >     aren't dumb either. It's not about you.
> >
> >     Oh and by the way...your html mail is almost unreadable...could you
> >     please post in plain text emails to the list?
> >
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> >
> I had this problem; however in the advanced bootloader options (at least
> in a graphical install), there is an option to change which hard drive
> to install to. I don't remember the exact wording. Since I had to do a
> text install, though, I had to unplug the other two drives in my system.
> Such is life.
> -Dan
>
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