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| Author: | Stealth [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:47 pm ] |
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Currently i have this as my IDE configuration. First IDE : 1x DVD Master 1xCD Slave Second IDE : 1x HDD Master 1x HDD Slave I want to have a dual boot with the master and slave drives, how can i get it to show the dual boot screen? First drive has Windows XP and the second has Ubuntu. |
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| Author: | Colt Seavers [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:56 pm ] |
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i used to use partition/boot magic to do this with my old pc.....don't know how to do it without. |
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| Author: | Stealth [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:59 pm ] |
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I was thinking about changing the boot.ini file to see if it would allow me to choose to boot into it, but i dont wanna change it incase i break windows boot 
Hmm partition magic seems like a good idea colt but id rather not install a 3rd party app. 
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| Author: | Arma [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:59 pm ] |
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grub / lilo ? |
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| Author: | simon [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:44 pm ] |
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Stealth wrote: I was thinking about changing the boot.ini file to see if it would allow me to choose to boot into it, but i dont wanna change it incase i break windows boot
Hmm partition magic seems like a good idea colt but id rather not install a 3rd party app. All I can say... IS BE VERY CAREFUL... Be sure to backup that file before modding it and be sure to have another compy handy if it cocks up. I changed mine and forgot to set it to the right partition... didn't have another PC with SATA connectors... so I used Maddogs compy to remove the boot.ini from my hard-drive. Just a word of warning. |
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| Author: | Stealth [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:47 pm ] |
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Yeah i seen pleanty of warnings on a majority of the sites i looked at, its all very complicated just to dual boot 
Gave me a sore head so ive given up at the mo just so i dont cock up really lol
I'll have a look at it tommorow, think il just set the linux hdd to boot first and use GRUB for the boot menu, seems easier. |
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| Author: | simon [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:50 pm ] |
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Stealth wrote: Yeah i seen pleanty of warnings on a majority of the sites i looked at, its all very complicated just to dual boot
Gave me a sore head so ive given up at the mo just so i dont cock up really lol I'll have a look at it tommorow, think il just set the linux hdd to boot first and use GRUB for the boot menu, seems easier. When I did this... I had to change something in the boot file that took priority... in this case, it was the debian boot file. so I had to add the windows to the bootup menu and then it went through to the Windows boot menu. lol. Was a long time ago though, and I don't remember how to do it now. 
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| Author: | GeneralPublic=GCHQ= [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:02 pm ] |
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boot.ini should be all you need - just adding a second line to the [operating systems] part won't break anything. |
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| Author: | Holy Monkey [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:03 pm ] |
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Just set up grub on your primary drive. Surprised Ubuntu didn't do it for you tbh, it did for me. |
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| Author: | Stealth [ Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:33 pm ] |
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Holy Monkey =GCHQ= wrote: Just set up grub on your primary drive. Surprised Ubuntu didn't do it for you tbh, it did for me.
Oh it did do so, but when i press esc when GRUB is loading windows is not a choice to boot from. |
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