Christopher Bogart wrote:

> I'm fairly new to Linux and have a question:
>
> I recently installed Red Hat 9 on a 40 GB drive (1st drive is 40 GB XP)
>
> I bought the 2nd drive so I could work on it independently from the XP OS.
> During an installation a few months ago, I was able to disable the XP
> drive in the BIOS and enable the 2nd drive whenever I wanted to play with
> Linux.
>
> Today in the Linux setup I disabled the boot loader and also deleted the
> DOS boot from the setup. Yet, the GRUB still appears. The only way I can
> get into either the XP or Linux OS is enabling both drives in the BIOS. If
> the XP drive is enabled and the Linux is not, it's giving me a GRUB Hard
> drive error. If the Linux drive is enabled and the XP is not, it goes
> straight to the GRUB dos prompt.
>
> Is there a way around this?
>
> The Linux setup doesn't let you change which HD the GRUB is installed.
>
> Many thanks in advance.

What's wrong with enabling both drives and booting your OS of choice from
GRUB?

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