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?

Yes, there is. Use Grub to decide which operating system to load. The
reason:

1. Windows wants to be on the first system drive.

2. Grub and Linux therefore must be on the second system drive.

3. Both drives must be activated.

> The Linux setup doesn't let you change which HD the GRUB is installed.

Sure it does, but the Windows drive must remain where it is, and you only
have two drives. If you had more drives, there would be more meaningless
choices.

You know, you never said what you wanted to happen, only what did happen.

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Paul Lutus
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