how to access 2 different harddrive at start up?
 

hello

I have fc3 on one harddrive and xp and suse 9.2 on a separate harddrive.

questions is how can give my self the option of access one harddrive over the other when I boot my machine up instead of switching cables and jumpers everytime I want to use FC3 with is on a separate harddrive?

You should be able to mount the other harddrive like normal. If you want to mount the other harddrive automatically just add a line in fstab.

Is grub or lilo set up to give you a choice as to which OS you want to boot?

Maybe I don't understand what you are looking for.

Edit: you won't be able to access the Linux partitions while in XP for XP can't read them, but there should be a way to access the XP partition through Linux with the NTFS support stuff--do a search on how.

If you have both hard drives in what you will need to do is add an entry in your main bootloader. I'm guessing it's grub in which case I don't know the exact commands but you will need to have an option to boot off of the other hard drive which is probably hdb1. In grub I think you have to use hd1,0 though. Hope that helps.

grub is giving my an option of booting either xp or suse becuase thats my primary HD right now.

But, if i want to access my other HD which has fedora on it..i have to open the box up and switch cables around and jumpers every time

is there a way for the bootloader or bios even to give be an option of booting from my xp and suse hardrive or fedora harddrive?

kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc1
should do it although your kernel might have a different name and be in /boot. Here's the grub manual if it doesn't work
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/man...ml#GNU%2fLinux