winows2000/etch dual boot from two harddisk

sadun · 06-08-2005, 06:09 AM

Hi buddies,

I have bought a seagate SATA disk to avoid booting problems. I have installed suse on sata and windows on ide disk. But at boot time it is not finding the suse just opening windows (I installed windows after suse). If I change boot sequence from bios then i can go with suse but this time no windows. Simply it sees the os on the currently active disk.

1- I am going to make clean install of debian etch and windows. Pls give your advice how can i do so the system can see on both disks os and at boot manager i can choose from them. Any third party application or lilo or grub all solution welcome.

2- I am thinking to set up a RAID system. If so will all of my disks wiped out? I have datas that i want to backup. I have c, d, f for windows partitions and / , /boot and swap for linux partitions. I have datas on c and d partitions which i cant lose. f partition holds my windows installation.

My system is

AMD sempron 2500+
K7N2 MSI mainboard (Has raid functionality)
Seagate 200GB SATA disk
Samsung 80GB HDD
Nvidia FX5200
768 MB DDR ram (512+256)

Ty all

Gay R0b0t · 06-08-2005, 07:08 AM

in response to the upmost section:
set the sata drive (suse) to boot first, then configure the boot loader (grub is probably easiest) to see windows on hda, and suse on sda.

example for /boot/grub/menu.lst

Code:

title Windows
    root (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1

title SUSE
    kernel (sd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz
    initrd (sd0,0)/boot/initrd

that is assuming that suse is on the first partition of the sata disk and that the boot folder is inside that partition.

sadun · 06-08-2005, 07:31 AM

Ty so i take it debian etch also have grub right?

saman007uk · 06-08-2005, 08:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by sadun
Ty so i take it debian etch also have grub right?

I believe that debain installs LILO by default. You can install GRUB easily using the folllowing commands:

Code:

apt-get install grub

Of course, don't forget to configure grub (and run the grub-install script) before rebooting your PC, otherwise you will make the PC unbootable.