Dual-boot Advice..

[gooseman]

Hi there everyone, just need some advice...

I have two HDD's in my system, one has windoze on it and the other had Red Hat 7.2.

At the moment, if I want to use linux I have to physically swop the drives and set the linux drive up as a master and disconnect the windoze drive.

What I would like to do, set the Linux drive as a master and the windoze drive as a slave and dual boot between the two. BUT HOW?

it is Windoze ME. I am using grub.. and I have IDE drives. think that is all the info you might need.. any advice would be handy...

cheers :confused:

[jetblackz]

Simple: first crack open the case and make sure the 2 HD's are on master for Linux and slave for ME. Reinstall RH7.2. At bootloader install, you want Grub. There, it'll auto-recgonize ME drive.

[ph34r]

I'd put Linux on the secondary drive and WinME on the primary - I think I remember reading something about Win not liking the slave position for C:, and I know Linux has no problem being all on the secondary. You will still want lilo or grup on the master boot record of the primary.

[jglen490]

You shouldn't have to reinstall RH, but I do agree that WinME should be on the master HD and RH on the slave. Once that is settled, you should be able to set up Grub so that it is on the MBR of the master hard drive. Once that is done, you should be able to configure the Grub menu either through RH or manually by editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and have both WinME and RH configured as boot menu items. Make sure your timeout listed in the menu.lst file is something reasonable -- like 5 or 10 seconds so you have time to react to it when it is displayed on bootup.

[mdwatts]

If Linux will be on the master drive and Windows on the slave, then add the following to /boot/grub/menu.lst

title = windows
map (hd0, hd1)
map (hd1, hd0)
chainloader (hd*,*)+1

That should work.