It's been a long time since I did a multi boot Windows install. With Windows and the boot managers for Windows maybe it has to be. However, with Grub or LILO you set them up on the MBR, then tell them where to find Windows and it's all done from there. At initial boot there are no partitions.
Way back when with Win98 and before they had to have the loaders on the C: drive to keep them happy. > > From: Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/09/05 Mon AM 09:50:29 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive? > > Thanks Brett. > > I did think that Windows cared where it's boot loader was and that it > had to be the first partition on the drive. Is that not true? > > Thanks again, > Mark > > On 9/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Windows doesn't care where it's system files are installed (XP that is) > > except that I remember it needs a partition on C to put it's boot > > stuff.like boot.ini. > > > > > > > > From: Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: 2005/09/05 Mon AM 09:38:39 EDT > > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > > Subject: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive? > > > > > > Hi, > > > Is it possible to put Windows XP an a second drive in a Linux box > > > and have Windows be happy? > > > > > > 1) I'm pretty sure that grub will have no problems with this, correct? > > > > > > 2) Will Windows be happy if it's the only OS on a non-boot drive? > > > > > > I've done lots of dual boot machines before but there were always > > > Windows on the main drive and System Commander to get me to Linux. I > > > don't want to use System Commander this time. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Mark > > > > > > -- > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
