Hard Drive Dilemma!

[fvs]

I have removed Win XP and installed Ubunto on the 20gig (slave) while I had the (master) disconnected. Put the (master) back and tried to boot, I stiil can't get the (slave) to boot. I'm just trying to boot from either hard drive, Which I have installed, Seagate 80 gig (master) which has Fedora 5 and WD 20 gig (slave) which has Ubunto only no win XP at all. All I want is to be able to switch drives from the boot. I really don't care about Win Xp, trying to stick with linux all the way.
Thanks. fvs

[Roxoff]

There is a grub option you can give called 'map' that lets you change the designation of drives at bootup; this may solve your problem. Take a look at the man page for grub, it might give you enough information to use the option as I'm not all that familiar with it.

[Lnx805]

Just curious, did you check the basics; bios set to boot on hd0 [primary master], the 80g is set to master and the 20g is set to slave..? If all the h/w is correct, the grub will need to be edited [as mentioned].
I used have a win drive as a secondary master and would just re-set the bios to hd2, [secondary master].

[fvs]

Hi Lnx, I have all working well now, I guess the problem is solved, thanks to a lot of community help, It was the grub.conf that solved the problem. All that have had the same situation should add this to solve theirs,


title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1)
chainloader +1