Hi,
I am using fedora 8 in my hardisk initially. But now i got one more hard disk 40gb and i 've installed winXP in it. Now, that i want both of them to function parallelly when connected together... Pl. tell me how to edit the options in GRUB loader to have an option choosing fedora 8 and winXP and also tell me if any system setup is required to recognise both the hard disks.. Pls help me out, im hanged in the middle..

Thanks a lot for helping

Sarath

you need to tell us more info

bios boot order
for the linux system is /boot on a separate partition or subfolder to /
where is /

for MS where is C

read my signature which reveals why these are important and give examples of dual boot.

post your info if you do not understand it, and whether or not you are using
hardware raid software raid on what type, or LVM?

cheers

Thnks for responding.. But im really blank wit wat u asked me for..

" bios boot order
for the linux system is /boot on a separate partition or subfolder to /
where is /

for MS where is C "

This is wat 's confusing tho..

But after some more search wat i found out, required is that i need to edit the 'fstab' file..

So here's how my fstab file rit now..

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0


and also my terminal output wen typing

[sarath@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdc0ddc0d

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 26 9729 77947380 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-0: 78.8 GB, 78819360768 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9582 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 939 MB, 939524096 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 114 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30307800

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table


pl.help me a bit clear dont mind troubling you

Were they both connected to the computer when you installed XP? Or did you disconnect the Linux drive while installing XP?

Were they both connected when you did that fdisk-l?

Maybe aus9 or other expert will understand that fdisk -l output, but it confuses me enough, I need more basic info: What kind of drives are these (SATA, PATA, etc.)? What does the BIOS report about the XP drive when both are connected?

ok lets go slower.

you have a 80g and a 40g drive.

80g = linux = /dev/sda
sda1 is / and uses LVM because your fstab shows / as having a volume group.


BTW I do not use LVM.

q1) Did you know you were using LVM?

so /boot is sub-folder to / now if you read my signature you know grubspeak is root (hd0,0)
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q2) Are you trying to enable RAID for any device?

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When you go into bios, if you ever did, did you change the boot order, did you make it 40g then 80g or is it still 80g then 40g?

if you do not understand that, do you see grub on your screen shortly after powering on the computer?

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q3) Have you got XP to boot? If so, how?