Do you use a manual partitioner to put the Linux Distro of choose on the second
hard disk?

http://www.kitchentablecomputers.com/linux4.htm
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic124562.html

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/dual-boot-linux-windows\
-two-hard-drives-already-installed-481603/

Good luck,
Joan in Reno




--- On Mon, 7/13/09, John Lindsay <jclind@...> wrote:

From: John Lindsay <jclind@...>
Subject: [linux] grub and screwed up WiNXP
To: linux@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 8:04 PM

















Greetings



I have a dual hd (both 40G) that I have WinXP installed on the 1st HD. Shutting
down and rebooting the WinXP worked fine each and every time. I put debian on
the 2nd HD and accepted the grub install for a dual boot. I accepted the default
debian as my primary OS. If I try to boot into winxp I see a flash of blue with
some writting on it the it goes back into the grub screen and reloads debian. It
did the same for ubuntu as well. I did the recovery 'fixmbr' etc previously and
got winxp back but lost grub and was unable to boot into debian. I want a dual
boot machine. WinXP on drive 1 and Debian on drive 2. How can I get that? I have
done this with winxp on drive 1 and tried Ubuntu, Opensuse and fedora and the
same thing happened. There is something wrong with the whole grub/winxp setup
but I can't figure it out. Any one got some ideas (besides scrap XP) as to how
to fix grub/winxp to work.



John



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