Booting with 2 hard drives

[jimbeaux51]

Help!!! I'm both a hardware and Linux newbie. I have 2 hard drives installed on my computer, one with WinME and one with Fedora 1. I can see both drives with Seagate's DiscWizard but I don't have a clue as to how to configure the computer so that I can boot into either system.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Dolda2000]

During the Linux installation, you can normally choose to install a boot loader (which is also the default) so that it allows you to boot into either system. Did you not do that?

Also, what exactly happens as it is now? If Windows just boots directly, could that be because you installed Windows after you install Linux? It's usually a good idea to install Windows first and then Linux, since Windows overwrites your boot sector when you install it.

[Nerderello]

please read the tutorial about solving boot problems with grub.

Nerderello

[dt2]

For solving the dual-boot problem, I've found these references mighty handy:

Using NTLDR (Windows' boot manager):
http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tut...utorial_id=313
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux...w2k-HOWTO.html
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue36/larriera.html
http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/ntldr.html

Using GRUB or LILO (Linux boot managers):
http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/0,39...0265546,00.htm
http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tut...utorial_id=405
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3573

Occassionally then contradict each other (I think), which is why it's worth reading more than one.