Installing windows on secondary hard drive

[grumpy]

On Wednesday 16 May 2007 11:26:21 am Greg Booth wrote:
> Everyone,
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> Ok I've googling this all morning and can't seem to find any good answers.
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> What would it take to install XP to a secondary hard drive ( hdb ) using
> grub
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> I've got the entry in grub thus:
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> title           Windows XP
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> map (hd0) (hd1)
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> map (hd1) (hd0)
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> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
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> chainloader     +1
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> makeactive
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> boot
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> I've copied the install files from the CD to the first partition but I'm
> getting an error "unknown binaries" when trying to boot it.
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> Anyone ever had any luck directly installing XP from CD to hd1 ?
I may (probably am) wrong, but Winblows has to be installed first then you can 
install Linux due to Win$ux overwriting the MBR on every boot
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Greg Booth



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