Re: GRUB hang dual booted system

From: Paul Lutus (nospam_at_nosite.zzz)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:31:19 -0700

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

>
> "Paul Lutus" <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote in message
> news:10it70akb12v320@corp.supernews.com...
>> imotgm wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:27:32 +0000, imotgm wrote:
>> >
>> > As an afterthought, I'd also recommend installing the 80GB drive as the
>> > first drive, /dev/hda, and moving the Windows drive to /dev/hdb, or
>> > /dev/hdc.
>>
>> Reasonable, except this won't work. Windows must be on the primary drive.
> I
>> hope the OP has the sense not to embark on your project.
>
> Win2K and WinXP can certainly reside on the secondary drive,

Windows XP (the version under discussion) can reside on a secondary drive
only if the Windows installation is delayed until after the drive has been
moved. For an existing drive with an existing installation of Windows XP,
it *cannot* simply be moved around as was suggested by "imotgm".

> but they're
> generally much easier to install on the first drive. It does take a bit of
> tweaking to get the boot loader to do the right thing after moving the
> drive, and I don't recommend it at all, but I've done it myself.

Not for a drive with Windows XP already installed on it. Such a Windows
installation made at (Windows C:) /dev/hda *cannot* subsequently be moved
to any other location in the drive assignments.

All the above, most particularly, when advising a newcomer to Linux. 

-- 
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com

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