dual boot, boot loaders and 2 HD

[kinnth]

Hello all,

I have a slight although not severer problem. I have 3 hd installed on my machine one 36gb raptor with xp installed on it and a single partition. This is my primary boot disc from my bios and with my current setup its the autoboot when i swith the pc on. Now on one of the other hd i have created another primary partion of 50gb with vista x64 installed. Now at the moment i can get both to boot but i have to change my first priority boot device in the bios to the 2nd hard drive and then vista will boot.

I want an easy to install boot loader that i can put on my raptor that will auto boot to xp or as a second option boot to vista? I have used grub on linux but am unsure of how to install it on a purely windows machine.

Any help?

Thanks

[peterb]

Grub should sort that out for you. If you install the oldest OS first (XP) then Vista, then install Grub, grub should configure itself to find the chain loaders for each OS. I say should because it isn't something I have tried! (Only used it in a Linux Windows setup)

This link

http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=32

May help, and/or do a Google search with the search term

grub vista

and you'll get a lot more info.

[alsenior]

as fat as im aware you would need a linux partition on the harddrive for grub because it stores all of it's settings on the linux partitions.you can setup the vista boot loader to boot windows xp as well. it will do this just fine without the need for grub

[streetster]

try EasyBCD to edit the boot config for vista...

basically, set the pc to boot from the vista drive, download/install/run EasyBCD then:

1. Click 'Add/Remove Entries'
2. Add the Windows entry, drive d: or whatever it is, change the name to 'Windows XP' or something meaningul.
3. Reboot, and you should have a choice