Grub's not going to work in this setup. Its configuration is read when
it loads and if its configuration (on the removable, linux drive) isn't
readable, it will just stop.
I can't help with M$ bootloader, though I did get the win2k bootloader
to boot linux once, just to see how its done. There are plenty of
tutorials to do this on the internet and your situation shouldn't
provide any difficulties with them at all.
My recommendation for this setup would be to use lilo. lilo writes its
config to the MBR whenever `lilo` is run. This makes it self-sustaining,
free from any support.
I will also point out there are many other great bootloaders out there.
I can't remember the name of my favourite "alternative" bootloader, but
I'll post later when I find it. Something like Boot Manager i think.
Good luck
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 14:28, Stephen Wiebelhaus wrote:
> I'm setting up a system to dual boot WinXP and Linux. Linux is
> installed on the secondary hard drive, which is a removable
> drive(problem). I can't get either the WinXp boot loader to work, or
> grub.
>
> Using grub, it works fine as long as the removable drive is installed.
> But, if I remove the drive with Linux, Grub locks up on boot, and
> won't do anything, won't boot windows either. Grub is installed on the
> master boot record, primary drive. I want to be able to run WinXP with
> a 3rd drive in the removable slot. How can I configure Grub so that it
> will boot WinXp when the second drive(Linux) is not present.
>
> So I tried to do things with WinXP's bootloader. It doesn't care if
> that second drive is in or not, it can still boot WinXP. For this I
> installed Grub on the boot partition of the linux drive. The Linux
> drive is partitioned: hdb1 swap 200MB, hdb2 / 4gigs. When
> installing Suse linux, it gave me two options for where to place Grub,
> master boot record or hdb2. So I choose option hdb2. I setup WinXP
> boot config to either boot WinXP, or boot from the second partition of
> the secondary harddrive, should be hdb2. But, when I select linux, it
> just stops.
>
> So, how can I get this to work, either using Grub or WinXp bootloader
> is fine.
>
> Hompage www.public.asu.edu/~swiebel/index.html
>
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