Fedora Core 2 and WinXP dual boot

[Rohit Beri]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 19:08, Beri, Rohit wrote:
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>>All:
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>>I have read a few post on how this is done and few things one needs to look out for... In my situation I have 2 hdd for my dell latitude, one running WinXP and the other Fedora Core 2, I was swapping HDD before. 
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>>Just yesterday I bought a media bay so I can plug fedora Core 2 as a second hdd. I was wonderding how to configure without formatting fedora core hdd to be able to chose which OS i want to boot to when I start the machine.
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>>Any pointers ? 
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>There are a variety of ways of achieving this, some using the XP
>bootloader to load grub (e.g. http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) and
>some using grub to load the XP bootloader (e.g.
>http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html). I've used
>both methods and there's not a lot to choose between them. Given that
>your machine already has XP as the default OS set up though, I'd be
>inclined to go for the first one, adding Linux as an additional OS on
>the XP boot menu (the menu doesn't show by default if you only have XP
>installed). You need to install grub or lilo on one of your linux
>partitions (conventionally the root partition, e.g. /dev/hdb1) and then
>have bootpart.exe add an entry to your c:\boot.ini to load up linux from
>that partition.
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>Paul.
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Thanks for the pointer. I am going to work on this over the weekend. 
Will try to post my discoveries...

Thanks,

-B