Install 2nd hdd with existing XP install for dual boot? (hijacked - was Re: memory stick question)

[Matthew Flaschen]

anthony baldwin wrote:
> grumpy wrote:
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>> On Thursday 29 March 2007 03:36:35 pm D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
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>>> On Thursday 29 March 2007 2:37 pm, Donn wrote:
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>>>> RAM is hell. Expensive hell. I try to go up in identical increments. I
>>>> have never had any luck mixing modules - even from the same manufacturer.
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>>> I'm with Donn on this one.  What ever happened to 72-pin SIMMs anyway?  Now
>>> we have 973 different kinds of RAM, in 475 different increments, with
>>> 385,000 different possible configurations.
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>>> I never upgrade RAM anymore.  I have no idea WHAT the hell to buy.
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>> This has worked for me...sometimes
>> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/memory_config.asp
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>>> D. Michael McIntyre
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> Heh, Tigerdirect is where I am ordering the machine.
> Tigerdirect ROCKS!
> Anyway, the machine already comes with 1 512mb DDR2 533 PC2-4200 stick.
> So, I figure whatever I get, so long as it is DDR2 PC4200, my machine, 
> theoretically,
> shouldn´t go *puft*...
> 
> Now, the one drawback to the machine is, it comes with a 120gb hdd, with 
> (yech...*shivers*)
> Windows XP Media 2005...
> So, I figure I will use the 120gb hdd from my present machine in it...
> BUT, for certain dubious ¨advantages¨ that having access to windows, 
> and,. therefore, certain
> industry standard programs (Trados), will supposedly offer me, I 
> consider making this a dual boot.
> Something I have not yet succeeded in doing is making a dual boot with a 
> second/slave hdd.
> Tried it, but the machine got confused seeing two MBRs...
> I figured configuring the pins on the second/windows drive for slave and 
> updating grub to find it would work,
> but, if I recall correctly, it didn´t.

I don't know if the autoconfigure will work, but you should be able to
set that up.  It would be something like:

# title		Windows 95/98/NT/2000
# root		(hd1,0)
# makeactive
# chainloader	+1

hd1 means second hard drive.

Matt Flaschen