On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:25 -0600, FHDATA wrote: > A. Recently purchased PC has 2 physical drives (let's > call them p0 , p1). > > B. p0 has windows 7 ; p1 is blank never been used. Presuming that before installing Linux onto the second drive, that the computer worked as expected (boots up to Windows on the first drive, even with the second unused drive attached). It could be that the computer thinks drive one and two are around the other way, it tried to boot from drive one, found no bootable OS, and booted from the second one. Simple step to take: Swap drive cables between the drives. See what happens. NB: Telling the BIOS that drive one is drive two, and drive two is drive one, doesn't always work. Sometimes they get swapped as far as the BIOS selecting the other drive to boot from. But aren't regarded as swapped by the OS that is booted. The stalling at a blinking prompt sounds rather like the problem I've just outlined in the above paragraph. > Can I have a system as stated above so I can boot > to p1 with linux on it without p0 ever being touched > in any way.... ? It is possible. There are several ways. Here's just three of them: 1. Depending on your BIOS you can choose which drive to boot, from it, each time. Though, depending on your BIOS, you can wear it out by keeping on changing its settings. It depends on whether you're resetting which drive is which, or it's simply a boot choice which doesn't store a setting. 2. You can copy the bootblock from the Linux drive as a file onto the Windows drive (this will only need doing once), and then add to the Windows boot menu an option to boot from that bootblock. Making Windows your boot menu controller. 3. If you can sort out which drives are which, and your BIOS doesn't confuse things, and get Linux to boot up. You can make your Linux drive your boot drive, and have its boot menu pick whether to boot Windows or Linux. Think about it, do some experimenting, then concentrate on just one of them. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
