WOOT install and grub went flawless. Thx all!! I just disabled the primary drive in the bios and XP installed like a charm.
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:50, Alan wrote: > Pretty much. Lilo can do a trick to make the OS see the primary as the > secondary and the secondary as the primary, so if your windows doesn't > like being on anything but the primary master, you can install it to any > drive and through grub (or lilo as well I'm sure) fake it out. > > So yea, you can swap drives temporarily, install windows wherever it > wants, then swap back, boot up to linux, edit the grub.conf, and off you > go! > > .From info grub: > > - Command: map to_drive from_drive > Map the drive FROM_DRIVE to the drive TO_DRIVE. This is necessary > when you chain-load some operating systems, such as DOS, if such > an OS resides at a non-first drive. Here is an example: > > > grub> map (hd0) (hd1) > grub> map (hd1) (hd0) > The example exchanges the order between the first hard disk and the > second hard disk. See also *Note DOS/Windows::. > > > alan > > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:45:35PM -0600, ds wrote: > > Ahh you mean I can disconnect my current linux drive hd0, set it aside, > > place the new drive in and install Winblowz to it, then add back my > > linux drive and edit the grub.conf file for winblowz and all this time > > winblowz wont get upset for moving it down the chain? > > > > I mean I have to change the jumper settings around and all correct? > > > > Doc > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 17:42, Andy Quinn wrote: > > > Looks like its a bit late now but if you had unhooked your primary hd then put > > > your new drive as primary you could have installed windows and then putting this > > > drive as slave and reinstallining your primary drive. Then it would have been a > > > relativley simple job to set grub to boot windows from the second drive. (if > > > that makes sense) > > > > > > Andy > > > > > > On 03 Apr 2003 17:32:20 -0600 > > > ds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Tears are welling up, I got my 2nd HD today and when I tried to load > > > > Winblowz on it, it wanted to write to -- of course you guessed it HD0 :( > > > > No free space so now I am going to have to totally rebuild my Gentoo box > > > > once again----O the Cursed world of Games I am swept into, woe is me :( > > > > I will see yall in a day or two. > > > > > > > > Doc > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
