HDD Boot Question

amy

I have two 200gb Hard Drives

The first one (Primary) has Win XP installed. The second (Slave) has  installed on it. After a load of problems I installed  again and set grub to boot from hd1 (slave) which of course didn't boot. If I were to switch the drives so that my  was primary and XP slave would grub pick up the fact that I have WinXP installed and allow me to log in through grub?

Cheers,
Mike

can't you install grub to the mbr of your windows xp disk?  that should save you a lot of hassle.

Unfortunately no because then it throws an Error 18 for the first time it boots then refuses to boot into grub after.

I would have said what benX009 said – just re-install GRUB to the Windows drive MBR hd0 (and them maybe edit menu.lst to make sure Windows is correct).

If you do it your way, switching drives, you may get that to go, too, but Windows likes to be booted from the first (BIOS-) bootable hard drive, so in GRUB’s menu.lst, in the boot entry for Windows, you will have to use a map-dance.

This How-To would explain all these options.

How To GRUB Methods - Toolkit
from : localhost/k.net/forums/inde...opic=3081671.0
(Read down through the posts following th first post until you come to the map dance thing – installing Windows to a non-first hard drive, dated July-something.)