Dual Boot

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:48 pm

Is it possible to have a dual boot, XP from one hardrive, Linux from another

If so how

Rockinfroggi · Post by **Rockinfroggi** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:57 pm

Never tried it with separate drives, I've always dual booted from the same drive and Linux loads it's own boot manager, either lilo or grub.

Gary.

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:01 pm

Just took an old computer apart today, the harddrive still works found all my old info I thought I had lost, so was wanting to try and play with Linux but by using it on this other drive

Temujin · Post by **Temujin** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:35 pm

Yep, thats no problem
during the linux install you'll be asked where you want to install linux, just point it at the 2nd HD.
It will normally then ask you which OS you want as boot default
It will then write to the MBR of the 1st HD and you'll get a boot-time menu
should work fine

UBT - JohnR · Post by **UBT - JohnR** » Tue May 15, 2007 7:29 am

I have used bootit for several years and found it a good program. It allows me to have drives running several partitions and boot to any of them.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html

Have the free trial on your old system

UBT - PaulC · Post by **UBT - PaulC** » Tue May 15, 2007 7:30 pm

When your in linux you can either use lilo or grub as a boot loader. If this is setup correctly you can dual or tripple boot in to various OS's

It;s what I use on my wee PC that has windows / fedora core / debian

Paul