Help for DUAL BOOT WINxp / PCLinux ON 2 HARD DISKS

[kryoneritis]

Hi everybody
I face a "small" problem i can't solve myself
I run WinXP on an IDE hard disk 160G 
I installed PClinux 2010 on another hard disk SATA 320G in order to be familiar with PClinux. I installed linux using a live CD and having my IDE HD disconnected.
After installation PClinux worked fine.
After shut down i reconnected my win/ide disk. After that i can't see my linux/sata hard disk at all. Win xp work fine every time i boot my pc.
 I suspect that something goes wrong with the linux boot loader recognition due to windows performance , but I am not an OS influent person , so I need some help.
I searched web for any information related to this issue but all info was
a)  how to dual boot  having two partitions onto the same hard disk. Not my case.
b)  how to use bios configuration to select which hard disk to boot .
I tried the b) solution but without any success. 
Can anybody direct me to any instructions source or can give me any advice
to help me solve my problem ?
(intel 586/mem 2G/Winxp 32bit SP3 prof /2 ide disks/ 2 sata disks/ 1 dvd RW/ 1FDD)
Thanks beforehand
Pete

[Old-Polack]

Hi everybody
I face a "small" problem i can't solve myself
I run WinXP on an IDE hard disk 160G 
I installed PClinux 2010 on another hard disk SATA 320G in order to be familiar with PClinux. I installed linux using a live CD and having my IDE HD disconnected.
After installation PClinux worked fine.
After shut down i reconnected my win/ide disk. After that i can't see my linux/sata hard disk at all. Win xp work fine every time i boot my pc.
 I suspect that something goes wrong with the linux boot loader recognition due to windows performance , but I am not an OS influent person , so I need some help.
I searched web for any information related to this issue but all info was
a)  how to dual boot  having two partitions onto the same hard disk. Not my case.
b)  how to use bios configuration to select which hard disk to boot .
I tried the b) solution but without any success. 
Can anybody direct me to any instructions source or can give me any advice
to help me solve my problem ?
(intel 586/mem 2G/Winxp 32bit SP3 prof /2 ide disks/ 2 sata disks/ 1 dvd RW/ 1FDD)
Thanks beforehand
Pete

You need to set the SATA drive as the boot drive in BIOS. Then you will see the grub boot menu and be able to boot your PCLinuxOS installation. Once booted, you can add a boot stanza to also boot Windows, in your /boot/grub/menu.lst file. You need to have root privileges to edit that file. The Windows stanza should look like this;

title Windows
    rootnoverify (hd1,0)
    map (hd1) (hd0)
    map (hd0) (hd1)
    makeactive
    chainloader +1

You can copy/paste the stanza above from here to the opened menu.lst file, (make room between the first and second original Linux stanzas) save the file, then reboot. You should then see Windows as the second of the boot options on the revised grub boot menu.

[kryoneritis]

Thank you very much OldPolack
I 'l follow your suggestion