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Old 01-30-2008, 10:39 AM   #1
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Setting up grub to dual boot two sata drives


I want to dual boot Windows XP and Fedora Core 7, each having its own sata disk. I already had Windows installed and I bought another hard drive identical to the one with Windows. I couldn't tell the two apart during the FC7 installation, so I disconnected my Windows disk (to make sure I didn't overwrite it), and did the install. The installer automatically configured grub as it should, placing it on the MBR of the disk, but it wasn't configured to dual boot Windows since the disk wasn't hooked up at the time. Now, after plugging in my Windows drive, when I tell the bios to boot from the FC7 disk, I get the grub menu but Windows isn't in the list of OS's. How do I re-setup grub to include the "new" disk? I think my FC7 drive is sda, and XP is sdb, but I can't remember. I'm at school right now, but I can post that information later today if needed.
 
Old 01-30-2008, 12:02 PM   #2
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This tutorial explains this well

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showt...hreadid=130715
 
  


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