dual boot

Cameron Tully-Smith lpstudy at sonic.net
Tue Jan 7 18:14:34 PST 2003


This may be a bit late (I haven't been following this thread), but 
(assuming you have a legal copy of Windows, which I assume), you might want 
to try getting DriveCopy from www.powerquest.com, then copying your Windows 
stuff to the IDE disk, then following the tips mentioned by others.

At 02:50 PM 1/1/03 -0800, you wrote:
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>Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't windoze 2000 loader expect the OS to
>reside on the primary drive?? GOD complex.... primary master or nothing at
>all....  No tweaking on the BIOS would help you there.  You may be able to
>use the map= function in /boot/grub/grub.conf to remap the drives to "fool"
>doze into thinking it is the primary drive..  I have seen references to this
>in the past.... no examples though.
>
>http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub-0.92/html_mono/grub.html#map
>
>Scratch 2000 off the SCSI drive and relegate it to the IDE drive.... better
>yet, dump it. ; )
>
>
>On Wednesday 01 January 2003 10:58, Joseph McCarty wrote:
> > I have Win2k on my machine's SCSI drive.  I added an IDE primary master on
> > which I installed RedHat.  Grub booted Linux fine, but not Windows.
> > Windows did not work right after the Linux install, even when I used CMOS
> > setup to change the boot drive from IDE to SCSI.
> >
> > The "Multiboot with GRUB Mini-HOWTO" differs from my situation in that the
> > author is using one hard disk.  Also, he installs Red Hat first, and then
> > Win2k.  I'm hoping to keep my Windows drive intact.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joe McCarty
>
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