Hi all, Here's my question.. I currently have 2 hardrives on my PC with 2 seperate OS'. The first drive is a SATA drive with XP. The second, IDE with Fedora (linux). At this point, I was unble to get the grub loader on the second drive to load XP. XP's boot.ini don't see the second drive. At this point, I wait until the "DELL" screen pops up and press F12, then 3.. Which tell it (manually) to boot into the second drive.. Otherwise XP is automatically loaded. How can I set up (either way) the system to see both drives at the same time, so that I can chose with drive to boot into? Any help would be appreciated.. Thanx for you time, Shayla:)

im not to sure what your asking for is possible.i have a dual boot with linspire and windows xp.but mine is a dual boot on separate partitons but on the same disk.i know windows always likes to be the primary OS so i loaded it 1st created a 2nd partition and put linspire on that..as linspire overwrites the boot.ini. because both hard disks have there own boot ini i doubt it will be possible but then again who knows!! if and when u do get an answer can u email me please...!

I have just seen this at Major Geeks, a bootloader called GAG 4.4, this might help you. www.majorgeeks.com/download2588.html Iligitimi non carborundum est

You can't boot Linux if it's entirely installed on the slave. You must at least have a /boot partition on the main drive. Everything else can be installed on the slave. Another way that works is to first install windows on the master drive. After it's installed, reconfigure the master as the slave, and the slave as the master. Install Linux on the "new" master, and install Grub on the MBR. You can then boot either OS with Grub. This method can be bad though, because if (when) you have to do a windows repair, you'll run into trouble. MS wants its products on the main drive and its software getts all pissy when it's not. Personally, I keep the OS's on the main drive, and keep my data on the slave where either OS can access it. It keeps things more organized. If you do that, make sure the data partition is FAT 32. Linux can read NTFS, but can't write to it (yet), and of course windows can't access a damned thing but its own file systems.

Shaun, Wombat, and Deputy DooDah, Thanx for your help.. I had heard of installing the /boot on the primary hard drive.. However, the kernel that I'm using is 2.4.18 (ancient). This kernel can not "recognize" my SATA (primary) hard drive. The only way that I can get this kernel up and running is to "disable" the SATA hard drive.. (or so I'm told).. As for switching Master/Slave.. like you, Deputy DooDah, I'm afraid of that also.. With my luck, as soon as I do this, I'll run into a ton of problems with XP.. ;) At any rate, thanx a lot.. ;) Shayla;)