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&gt; From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org]On Behalf Of
&gt; Jonathan Glass
&gt; Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:07 PM
&gt; To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
&gt; Subject: Re: [ale] Booting a Win XP drive with grub without
&gt; reinstalling?
&gt;
&gt;
&gt; &gt; Guys,
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; I have two machines...one with Windows XP and one with Red Hat 8.  I'd
&gt; &gt; like to take the harddrive out of the XP machine and drop it in the RH8
&gt; &gt; box as an IDE slave, and then use grub to dual boot.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; The grub tutorials I've seen so far assume you've either got XP
&gt; installed
&gt; &gt; and are doing a new Linux install or doing a new install of both.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Is it possible to do it as I've described?  Anyone else done this?
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Thanks as always for the help.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; John
&gt;
&gt; Check out 'info grub';
&gt; File: grub.info,  Node: General boot methods,  Next: OS-specific notes,
&gt; Up: Bo\
&gt; oting
&gt;
&gt; How to boot operating systems
&gt; =============================
&gt;
&gt;    GRUB has two distinct boot methods. One of the two is to load an
&gt; operating system directly, and the other is to chain-load another boot
&gt; loader which then will load an operating system actually. Generally
&gt; speaking, the former is desirable, because you don't need to install or
&gt; maintain other boot loaders and GRUB is flexible enough to load an
&gt; operating system from an arbitrary disk/partition. However, the latter
&gt; is sometimes required, since GRUB doesn't support all the existing
&gt; operating systems natively.
&gt;
&gt; * Menu:
&gt;
&gt; * Loading an operating system directly::
&gt; * Chain-loading::
&gt;
&gt; DOS/Windows
&gt; -----------
&gt;
&gt;    GRUB cannot boot DOS or Windows directly, so you must chain-load them
&gt; (*note Chain-loading::). However, their boot loaders have some critical
&gt; deficiencies, so it may not work to just chain-load them. To overcome
&gt; the problems, GRUB provides you with two helper functions.
&gt;
&gt;    If you have installed DOS (or Windows) on a non-first hard disk, you
&gt; have to use the disk swapping technique, because that OS cannot boot
&gt; from any disks but the first one. The workaround used in GRUB is the
&gt; command `map' (*note map::), like this:
&gt;
&gt;      grub&gt; map (hd0) (hd1)
&gt;      grub&gt; map (hd1) (hd0)
&gt;
&gt;    This performs a &quot;virtual&quot; swap between your first and second hard
&gt; drive.
&gt;
&gt; HTH
&gt;
&gt; Jonathan Glass
&gt;
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