How To Boot A Multi Hard Drive System

Zeriph · 07-26-2006, 02:15 PM

okay I have two hard drive one with XP and the other with linux how do I get it so that an option come up as to which one I boot into instead of having to go into bios all the time??

crazyjimbo · 07-26-2006, 02:33 PM

You will need a program called a bootloader - It is booted first and lets you choose which OS to boot. I would recommend GRUB but LILO is another option. I'm afraid I don't know how you would configure either of them for 2 drives, but it should be easy enough. There are plenty of documentation and tutorials out there if you google.

jstephens84 · 07-26-2006, 02:39 PM

When you installed Linux did you not install a bootloader?

Zeriph · 07-26-2006, 03:23 PM

yse but see I have a sata and an eide and the bios is set to the sata frist cuz it windows (I use it more) and linux is on the eide

jstephens84 · 07-26-2006, 03:36 PM

But the mbr should be on the first hdd shouldn't it.