Sasa Stupar wrote: > The thing is that I still want to be able to boot any of the systems > independently. This means I want to leave intact the MBR of each disk.
I use a slightly different approach to dual booting. Maybe it will work for you. I have linux installed on one hard drive with grub installed in MBR and W2K installed on the other harddrive with its boot loader installed in MBR. If I want to boot to linux, I set my systems BIOS boot order to "C-Drive". If I want to boot to W2K, I set my systems BIOS boot order to "D-Drive". Works great! The keys to success (at least with my motherboard): 1) I installed each OS without knowledge of the other harddrive. i.e. I removed the cables so the BIOS only saw one harddrive. Then after both OS's were loaded... 2) Linux/grub harddrive cabled/jumpered as master on the primary IDE bus. 3) W2K harddrive cabled/jumpered as master on the secondary IDE bus. 4) Now go into BIOS and change boot order to C -or- D drive. Note: Since Windows/W2K (in my case) does not understand the linux ext2/3 filesystem type , it will try to mount the linux harddrive at bootup and cause some major disk thrashing while attempting to do so. To fix this problem, I had to disable the linux harddrive in device manager. Steve Cowles -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
