On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 06:51:26AM -0400, Russ wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not a Linux Guru, so I hope any seasoned veterans on this list will > correct me. My experience with my 1998 Dell was to install Windows on my > second drive and RH9 on my first drive. I installed Windows Server 2K3 > first on the 3GB secondary drive, and then installed RH9 last on the 8GB > primary drive. Everything went well.
I'm not sure what all of the fuss is about: AFAIK, you really can boot windows off the first disk and linux off the second (or vice-versa) without any problems. As long as grub is installed in the master boot record of the first disk, grub is smart enough to leverage the rest of the BIOS calls to boot off an arbitrary partition off an arbitrary disk. And the 'boot' process is OS independent, they just have some extra hacks that allows you to trudge through the filesystem and specify a kernel under linux and *bsd. - Rob .
