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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Well, I'll post a little tip if you want to have a dual boot with two hard drives. My setup is one SATA drive and one IDE but it should work the same with matching drives. [ulist] * Windows installed on one drive. * Disconnect Windows drive and put in other drive, set to primary and install Linux. I disconnect the drive because the first time that I did this, even though I told Linux to install on the SATA drive, it still wrote over my Windows (bad day that started out to be) * After Linux is installed on the second drive, it should be Primary drive at this point of course, put in Windows drive and set it to slave. Of course there are no jumpers on a SATA drive but the motherboard will take care of which is primary and which is slave. Mine has markers stating SA0,SA1 on the connectors. * Now we have one drive that is Primary and it has linux on it and one drive that is slave and it has windows on it. * Windows is picky and wants to always be the Master drive so we have to trick it into thinking that it is. From a command line, edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst [/ulist] You will see a bunch of stuff in there but what you want to have is a section like this : [code] title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd1,0) savedefault makeactive map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1 [/code] The section of "map" there you will see there are 2 section of it. That is what makes Windows think that it's still in charge but we are actually using GRUB as our bootloader. The other file is still in /boot/grub and is called device.map. You should have something like : [code] (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb [/code] This is where hd0 is pointing to the Linux drive and hd1 is pointing to the Windows drive. You should be able to look at fstab to see how your drives are mounted for the /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Should have to change the device.map file but it will give you a good reference of how your drives should be mapped. The key file is the menu.lst and the dual map section. Hope that makes sense. Later, C:\ [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/1079]CPrompt[/url] on 08-05-2007 16:08)[/small] Loading...
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