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Stealth
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Post subject: Booting  Posted: 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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Colt Seavers
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Post subject: Posted: 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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Stealth
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Post subject: Posted: 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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Arma
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:59 pm |
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grub / lilo ?
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Post subject: Posted: 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.
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Stealth
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Post subject: Posted: 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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Post subject: Posted: 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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GeneralPublic=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: 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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Post subject: Posted: 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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Stealth
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Post subject: Posted: 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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