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Offline Sleepy

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[SOLVED] Dual booting question
« on: July 17, 2010, 06:46:06 AM »
After a complete rebuild of my machine,I would now like to add a second sata HDD which contains Windows7 and was formatted using the same computer.
At present I'm using a sata HDD that contains Windows XP and several Linux distros and I'm using Grub boot-loader to select which ever.
Am I able to install the second HDD and merely add an extra entry to the menu 1st file on the first HDD and if so what?Or is it more complicated?

This is the Windows entry I have currently in menu1st file.

title windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Thanks for any suggestions.
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Re: Dual booting question
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2010, 04:15:44 PM »
Yes you can add a second HD and just modify grub.
As PClinuxOS uses grub legacy its only a matter of editing
/boot/grub/menu.lst


Your entry will be something like:
title Windows 7
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1


hd(1,0) being the second hard drive
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Re: Dual booting question
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2010, 05:52:07 PM »
Quote from: hal8000 on July 23, 2010, 04:15:44 PM
Yes you can add a second HD and just modify grub.
As PClinuxOS uses grub legacy its only a matter of editing
/boot/grub/menu.lst


Your entry will be something like:
title Windows 7
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1


hd(1,0) being the second hard drive

More like:

title Windows 7
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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Offline Sleepy

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Re: Dual booting question
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2010, 03:18:50 AM »
That's marvellous,it worked!!And I was told it wouldn't be possible.

Most grateful old-polack and hal8000. :)
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Re: Dual booting question[Solved]
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2010, 04:35:02 AM »
Quote from: Sleepy on July 17, 2010, 06:46:06 AM
After a complete rebuild of my machine,I would now like to add a second sata HDD which contains Windows7 and was formatted using the same computer.
At present I'm using a sata HDD that contains Windows XP and several Linux distros and I'm using Grub boot-loader to select which ever.
Am I able to install the second HDD and merely add an extra entry to the menu 1st file on the first HDD and if so what?Or is it more complicated?

This is the Windows entry I have currently in menu1st file.

title windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Thanks for any suggestions.

To exclude possible confusion: the name of the file is menu.lst. "l" and not "1".
« Last Edit: July 24, 2010, 04:42:51 AM by uncleV »
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