Re: dual booting XP and Linux

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@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 20:54 -0400, Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote:
>
>
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> 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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