Dual Boot (2 Hard Drives!)

[Seb H]

Right i have two hard drives in my pc, a Win 2000 and a Suse Linux 8.1. Originall my Linux Hard drive was in another pc as a single drive... However that pc was old and slow so i have put both hard drives in my faster pc now.

I want Win 2000 to be the main hard drive (which it is at the moment because thats the one which boots up). However i want the option to be able to boot up my linux hard drive. What do i have to do to get this option?

I am not that clued up on linux yet, so i'd appreciate a set by set guide if i need to change settings on the linux hard drive.

Cheers in advance

Seb

[OTP]

Make sure you have the hard drives plugged into the right Parts on your IDE cables... then get GRUB (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/) And read the stuff on their website some where on how to install it. Hope that helps?

*searh the boards for other posts like this... there are some more some where, i know, there has to be*

[mdwatts]

Use your SuSE bootdisk or installation cd in rescue mode to boot into Linux, configure /boot/grub/menu.lst to dualboot SuSE and W2K (correct HD devices) and then as root, run

grub-install /dev/hda

which will then install Grub on the mbr of hda (primary/master).

Lots of good examples for bootloader configs on dual booting Win/Lin on different drives by searching in the Installation forum.