On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:24:17 -0500
Doug McGarrett
Q: What happens if you have 2 physical hard drives? I'd put XP on one and SuSE on the other, but where does XP wind up? I will be putting up a new machine soon, and would like some advice as to how to do this. (I don't really want XP, but I'm afraid I'm stuck with it. I know that some of my old Windows stuff won't work anymore, and I'll probably have to find a Linux workaround.)
--doug
<< snip > Hi, I have this setup..Win XP on drive 2 and 3 linux flavours on drive one. May I suggest... Put XP on drive 2 with its bootloader intact. Now should drive one pop out..just remove it and XP will boot on 2 without hassle. Install linux on drive one...as many as you like...use grub as bootloader...the last install on drive one will be in charge of the bootloading...if windows drive is in place as hd 2 on install then suse will pick that up and put it in grub. Make sure when configuring bootloading on install that you check that hd1 was selected for MBR install of bootloader. Ok..there is some tricks to correct this...but being new to this let us leave it at this. Suggest take a look at my posting on Suse linux community service - snippets....a detailed posting how to make a grub bootdisk and to install grub on hd.(one of the tricks to change which linux flavour is in charge of bootloading) Just for the hell of it..you sort of run out of space on drive one you can sneak in part of your linux install on drive 2 without affecting its MBR. Just put /boot on hd one and the rest can be on drive 2...of course the partitions there must be available. Partitions to linux is just addresses...can be on any drive on same box..as long as what is required must be available at such address. Goodluck Enjoy -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning - Still learning.