[lug] Dual-booting FC1 with WinXP on the second HD

[Michael Belanger]

I don't think Windows will let you do that.. It MUST be on the primary 
partition of the first disk.



bof wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a two hard disk computer with multiple Linux/FreeBSD versions on 
> partitions on both disks. FC1 is installed exclusively on the first HD 
> and Grub to its MBR to load all the OSes. I'm thinking about trying
> Windows XP and have a free partition as the first one on the second HD.
> 
> Is there a way that I can install XP into this partition and then load
> it using Grub on the first?
> 
> I've done Windows-Linux dual boots, both on single and a dual HD 
> systems. But these were with Windows on the first partition of
> the first HD, and Linux elsewhere. The Windows XP Resource Guide implies 
> that XP can be installed on partitions other than the first, and while 
> it goes into detail on how to do this with various versions of Windows, 
> it of course, does not mention Linux, for some strange reason <g>.
> 
> So I thought I'd see if anyone else has done this and how they did it
> and possibly save myself some frustration and more gray hair, which I
> can ill afford.
> 
> BOF
> 
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