[Luna] Setting up a dual-boot systlem

[Carolyn Roberts]

Hi Rian,

In response to your questions:


On 3/28/07, rian bogle <rbogle at usgs.gov> wrote:
>
> Carolyn,
>
> (I started to compose my answer and realized I assumed I know what you
> mean, so here are some clarification questions...)
>
> Which will be the primary disk (windows,or linux) ?


Right now, I have the Windows OS disk set to the Master and the Linux OS
disk set to Slave.

How do you boot to linux now?


I either go in and reset the bios to boot to the drive I want or more
typically I hit F8 to choose the boot drive from the list of probed devices.

Do you mean that you want to add  your windows dist to an existing boot
> config, and/or
> do you want the boot process interrupted to give you a boot choice
> between disks?
> or do you want to change your boot method and install grub to control
> the whole boot up?


I want grub to come up so I can either let it boot to the Linux OS as a
default, or choose Windows XP.  This was how I had my old system set up and
it worked well for me. Grub is installed because it comes up sometimes to
choose between two linux kernals, but I have never configured it before and
I don't know where to find the tools to do this.

Modifying an existing grub bootup is pretty easy ....
> a case of editing /boot/grub/menu.1st  on your existing linux (I can
> help you with the options for these cases)


I will try this.

Installing grub is more involved but there are howtos out there on the
> process.
> Best bet is to install, or reinstall the grub package for your linux
> distro and follow the readmes (eg /usr/share/doc/packages/grub)
>
> Once we get that figured out the changes are pretty straight forward
>
> --
> Thank-You,
>
>
> Rian Bogle



Thanks for all your help, Rian!
-Carolyn
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