2nd HD with Windows

[Ken Adams]

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 11:26 -0400, David M. Carney wrote:
> On Monday 30 May 2005 10:07, Nathan Blackham wrote:
> > On 5/29/05, Brian Astill <bastill at adam.com.au> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 30 May 2005 09:05 am, Ed Fletcher wrote:
> > > > Reboot. Should boot into Ubuntu. Go in and reconfigure grub to
> > > > recognize WinXP on the second drive.
> > >
> > > Que?  Can XP run on IDE0 Slave?  Or indeed anywhere other than the first
> > > partition on the first (master) hard drive?
> >
> > yes, it can
> >
> > I ubuntu running on my ide0 master and Windows on my ide0 slave.
> >
> > There is a trick to getting windows to boot though.  I posted it to
> > the list a while back, but here it is again.   This trick will make
> > windows think it is that master when it it not:
> >
> >
> > title  Windows XP
> > map (hd0) (hd1)
> > map (hd1) (hd0)
> > root  (hd1,0)
> > makeactive
> > chainloader +1
> >
> > BTW,  I installed Ubuntu and the unplugged the harddrive and installed
> > windows on the other one.
> >
> > Hope it helps.
> >
> > Nathan
> 
> I whole-heartedly support Nathan's example. I have done the exact same thing. 
> 
> One Linux distro I have tried before Ubuntu actually caught this and setup 
> Grub right, but no others including Ubuntu could manage it. Too bad.
> 
> One unforseen benefit to setting up your drives like this is if you ever 
> suffer from hard drive failure (like I did!) on your primary or master 
> (Ubuntu) drive, then you can temporarily go into your bios and tell it to 
> boot the second hard drive FIRST. That way your computer will completely 
> ignore your dead drive with Grub on it and boot your second hard drive 
> immediately.
> 
> David
> 
> -- 
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Thankyou guys...

All working as wanted.

Rgds Ken