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>>I have one SATA drive with windows xp installed.
>>I added a second SATA drive to install CentOS on. During the install,
>>both drives are listed. If I use the auto-partition feature and deselect
>>the drive with windows on it, only selecting the new drive, I get an
>>error message that it could not create the partitions. The same thing
>>happened a few months ago and I manually setup to partitions. This
>>worked, but windows wouldn't boot any longer. The last time I tried this
>>was with CentOS 4.0. I'm reluctant to mess up the windows install and
>>want to dual boot. Searching the web brought up alot of info, but I'm
>>still confused as to whether this should work.
>>I'm using an Abit AN8 motherboard with no ATA hard drives, but an ATA
>>cdrom drive (used for the install).
>>Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
>>Thanks.
>>mark
>>markworkman@xxxxxxxxxx
>>ps. I do have a 3ware SATA card I could put in if that would make things
>>easier.
>>
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>Your computer has one Master Boot Record on the boot drive (that is the
>Primary Master drive, the one that you currently have Windows on).
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>You will need to manually setup the partitions on the second drive.
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>When you get finished, CentOS will be installed on the second drive ...
>but the boot loader (grub) will be installed on the MBR of the boot
>drive.
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>As part of the setup, windows should be listed as a boot option ... if
>you use the arrow key on the Grub selection screen:
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>http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=272&slide=20
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>If windows is not listed, login to centos and edit
>your /boot/grub/grub.conf file and add this entry to the bottom of the
>file:
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>#---start below here---#
>title Windows
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
>#---stop above here---#
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>If you add those 3 lines, you should see "Windows" as an option on the
>grub selection screen.
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>If you want to see all the options every boot up, in that same file
>(/etc/grub/grub.conf), you should remark out (put a # in front of) the
>line that says:
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>hiddenmenu
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>so it looks like this:
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>#hiddenmenu
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Thanks for your help. This worked as you said that it would.
