On Monday 05 September 2005 08:38 am, Mark Knecht wrote: > 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
I restored a saved Windows 2000 (Partimage) image onto /dev/hdb1 then added the following to my grub.conf: title Windows 2k map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 I also found out that it didn't really like my LVM2 drives. It created drives all the way up to P: which really made no sense to me, so I went into Windows control panel / system and disabled two of my other hard drives /dev/hda and /dev/hdf..then on My Computer it only sees the drives I want it to see. Oh, I only put windows on so I could play the Doom 3 demo since I couldn't get the one in portage to work. -- Chris Linux 2.6.13-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 05:12:53 up 25 min, 1 user, load average: 0.58, 0.43, 0.35 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
