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Old 10th March 2007, 02:23 AM
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Dual Boot two Hard drives

[SIZE=2] I have Win XP Home on SATA drive and installed Fedora 6x on ide drive. I did not see an option to install GRUB and when I boot to the SATA drive I only get Win XP. If I change drives in BIOS I only get Fedora.
I also have Ubuntu on a second ide drive that I would like to keep. If it involves too much to get all three working together, then I will settle for the splash giving the option to boot either XP or Fedora. My plan is to eventually dump XP, so I can put Fedora on the SATA (larger than the ide's) and keep Ubuntu along with Kubuntu so I can get comfortable with all of these.
Can you help me?
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Old 10th March 2007, 02:56 AM
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Hello:
See this guide to assist you in getting fc and xp dual booting : http://jimlawrnc.mine.nu/mywiki/DualBootLinux
Once you accomplish that, then simply add your kernel boot lines from the grub.conf in ubuntu to the /etc/grub.conf file in FC [you will have to manually do this] and you should be good to go.

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Old 10th March 2007, 03:24 AM
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That only applies for IDE drives not SATA like mine er when I have two sata drives I mean. It might work with only one.
I have two SATA and my bios wont let me choose between them whichever one is on the primary SATA cable is the one I can choose to boot from and that's all.
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Old 10th March 2007, 03:32 AM
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That only applies for IDE drives not SATA
Hello:
I makes no difference whether the drive is SATA SATA11 or IDE.
There is no distinction in linux when mapping drives (hd0) for example, can and does refer to either or.

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Old 10th March 2007, 09:59 PM
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ok i have a problem with this maybe you can help. or anyone!
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default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet usbhid.mousepoll=2
initrd /initrd-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
Grub boots the Fedora install fine like this. Grub will not boot the windows install. it tried to but then it hangs there doing nothing displaying
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Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
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