From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECTEq-0008CE-Bk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2005 02:31:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j862QdiQ000828; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 02:26:39 GMT Received: from mailgateway58.your-site.com (mail-relay3.your-site.com [38.117.195.3]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j862Lwth018537 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 02:21:59 GMT Received: from m.your-site.com (unknown [10.0.10.43]) by mailgateway58.your-site.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 093B8859B9 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:25:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by m.your-site.com (Postfix, from userid 48) id 1B54885ACC; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:24:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 203.185.253.18 ([203.185.253.18]) by webmail.wht.com.au (IMP) with HTTP for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:24:58 -0400 Message-ID: <1125973498.431cfdfa0c550@webmail.wht.com.au> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:24:58 -0400 From: agl@wht.com.au To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive? References: <5bdc1c8b05090506386531316e@mail.gmail.com> <1125928173.10163.18.camel@spok.local.sporn-it.com> <5bdc1c8b05090507176248f356@mail.gmail.com> <1125931644.10167.50.camel@spok.local.sporn-it.com> <5bdc1c8b05090514512dd8e87c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b05090514512dd8e87c@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.1 X-Originating-IP: 203.185.253.18 X-Archives-Salt: 4135f0c1-b1e7-4231-84bf-b3304d40305b X-Archives-Hash: 51818df12509740e276fe2c4a6e1cfef Quoting Mark Knecht : > On 9/5/05, Heinz Sporn wrote: > > Am Montag, den 05.09.2005, 07:17 -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > > On 9/5/05, Heinz Sporn wrote: > > > > Am Montag, den 05.09.2005, 06:38 -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > Is it possible to put Windows XP an a second drive in a Linux box > > > > > and have Windows be happy? > > > > > > > > Should work. [SNIP A LOT OF STUFF] ... ... [SNIP A LOT OF STUFF] > > If not I could reconfigure the internal cables to share the new drive, > at least the Win XP drive, on the chipset cables, but I'd prefer not > to do that it possible. > > Thanks in advance for your ideas. > > Cheers, > Mark > Mark, I did what you want to do a few days ago and the system works fine. My steps where as follows: 1) Want Linux disk as hda, Windows as hdb 2) I had the windows disk already installed, like you, needed to install the linux setup. 3) Being totally paranoid about my ability to get the drive designations correct, I totally removed the Windows disk and then did the Linux install. Loaded Grub into the MBR on the hda. 3a) If I had had two empty disks and wanted one linux, one Windows, I would only place one disk in the machine at a time, do the appropriate OS install, boot it, make sure it was working before doing anything else. 4) We now have two disks and two OS's. Linux is on hda, Windows on hdb, both of which have their own bootloaders and can boot in their own right. I followed the Grub install process as outlined in the Gentoo install manual, setting up the Grub.conf file as outlined in Chpt 10, listing 3. I tried to reboot, and Linux came up. I then tried to reboot into windows and nothing happened. 5) Googling revealed that you need to make Windows "think" it is on hda when it is actually on hdb. I added the two lines, as suggested by Alex: map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) to grub.conf so it became: title=Windows XP map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,1) makeactive chainloader +1 saved, rebooted, selected Windows and it started up. Once you know what to do, it's quite easy, it's the finding out what to do in the first place that is the problem ;) Some people mention problems about sharing or overwriting MBR's etc, don;t worry about it, just set everything up so that they can individually boot then let Grub handle everything. Any problems, bounce me an email Regards, Andrew p.s. I'm not sure on the partition on the rootnoverify - read up on that -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list