Dual Boot on 2 Drives

[ViolentJ]

Can anyone tell me how to dual boot with 2 HDD's?

I have XP Pro on an 80 Gig and will be putting Linux (Ubuntu 5.10) on a 40 Gig.

 

[FiDoDiDo]

I reckon I'd be right in saying it's the boot.ini that needs changing;

"multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=..."

I think it's the second zero that needs changing if it's not the 'first' drive.

 

[ViolentJ]

what if i don't have a boot.ini? - and yes i have enabled view hidden and system files.

 

[RobertCL]

If you are dual booting Windoze and Linux, you are better off installing either Grub or Lilo (both from Linux) as your "boot loader" as they both understand how to boot linux and Windows, whereas Windows only understands Windows. I've never seen anyone with the Windows boot loader booting Linux.

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Windows won't boot if you don't have one so it must be there. Not sure what to suggest if you can't find it in the root of your Windows hard drive and all files are visable. Have you disabled 'Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)'?

 

[ViolentJ]

Windows won't boot if you don't have one so it must be there. Not sure what to suggest if you can't find it in the root of your Windows hard drive and all files are visable. Have you disabled 'Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)'?

i'm having a thick day - excuse me while i find a brick wall.

I can see boot.ini now lol

 

[ViolentJ]

If you are dual booting Windoze and Linux, you are better off installing either Grub or Lilo (both from Linux) as your "boot loader" as they both understand how to boot linux and Windows, whereas Windows only understands Windows. I've never seen anyone with the Windows boot loader booting Linux.

seen those mentioned before.. i'll google them

 

[FiDoDiDo]

I've used Lilo before I'd say it is probably the best bet on second thoughts, but be careful with whatever you change obviously.

 

[Ard1]

you can change the boot ini with the msconfig command in the run dialog

 

[Daz]

Default in Ubuntu is GRUB, so configure that!

 

[ViolentJ]

yep Daz, grub popped up during the install so i used that. Booted without an issue

Have you used ubuntu daz? Do you know why init won't work, is there an alternative?

 

[Daz]

Erm? Heh.
Init works fine?

 

[ViolentJ]

doesn't for me lol

never mind anyway, sorted what i was tryng to do