UNC Linux Users Group

[Faheem Mitha <faheem AT email.unc.edu>]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Rob Lineberger wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a laptop with dual 60 GB HDD.  Back in the dim mists of history
> one of the TriLUG Install-festers had it running GRUB with a dual boot
> to Fedora Core 1 and Win XP.  I've since reformatted the Win XP HDD, and
> lost GRUB and the ability to see the other hard drive.  I expected this
> because the GRUB loader resides on the first sectors of the Win XP
> drive, and I wasn't using Fedora, so no biggie.  But now I need the dual
> boot to do Plone development.
>
> I'm reasonably comfortable with installing Linux by itself and Windows
> by itself, but this dual boot thing has me puzzled.  Are there any
> resources for this kind of thing at UNC, or someone who can take pity on
> me and provide assistance? :)

Why not put grub on a floppy (or cdrom) and boot off that? You'll have to 
tell it the location of your kernel and root partition, but you can find 
that out using Knoppix. Once you've booted up, you can install grub to the 
MBR and everything will continue to work as before.

                                                                  Faheem.