Re: fat32/NTFS which order?
From: TokaMundo (TokaMundo_at_weedizgood.org)
Date: 07/13/05
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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:12:03 GMT
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:54:14 -0500, Andrew <eagle@charter.net> Gave
us:
>
>When you say "remember to place the boot loader for linux in the right
>place", I'm assuming I could put the boot loader onto the secondary hard
>drive (which would have linux on it also), and tell the boot loader that
>I have 2 os's, windows xp on the primary hard drive on the primary ide
>cable, and linux on the secondary hard drive. And then just tell the
>BIOS to boot from the secondary hard drive as the first choice in the
>boot order. Correct?
>
>At least that is what I have gathered from the numerous responses.
I think that would work as the Linux boot loader should be able to
point back to the first drive, but that isn't how I set mine up.
On mine, I actually made a 50MB primary on my first physical drive,
and placed MY boot loader of choice on it: XOSL. Then I made another
primary partition for windows, and made an extended from the rest with
one volume in it. Then my second drive is Linux, with the boot loader
for linux on that drive. My BIOS still points to the first drive, and
my first drive's boat loader points anywhere I tell it.
So I have:
Drive 1:
Pri 50MB with XOSL
Pri <4GB with '98 and XP
Ext
vol1 55GB with W2k
MBR has what XOSL wrote as I installed '98, then W2k then XP last
and then "fixed" my XOSL installation, a standard process done by
running the installer again (from floppy).
Drive 2:
swap and main / drives
MBR has grub placed on it and SUSE was told not to modify drive 1,
but to place the loader on the MBR of drive 2.
BIOS points at drive 1 and XOSL comes up in it's very nice GUI boot
loader at 1280x1024 with mouse and movable, multiple dialog boxes.
The setup page for it allows me to setup (or deny) floppy booting,
CD booting, etc. and make entries for each of my drive, titled with
whatever monikers I want to give them. It has password protection if
desired.
I just hate the fact that I can't make screen shots of that startup
screen!
Anyway, my little 50MB FAT16 primary, which I had to boot an old
version of mandrake to create is probably a little too eccentric for
the average starting fresh person.
I was actually successful in doing this, however, I recently failed
to do a standard, non XOSL install on a friend's machine due to my
lack of knowledge where grub is concerned. so I am not sure if I am
the one you should be listening to. Makes me wonder if I shouldn't
have remained silent and let others direct you on these matters...
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