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From: "M. Hale" 
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Subject: Re: More newbie dualboot. . .
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:05:45 -0500
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:09:01 -0600, User wrote:

> Swampbug wrote:
>> My system is setup primarily as a Windows XPPro system. I have setup Ubuntu 
>> 6.10 on a separate hard drive. XP on a serial drive and Linux on an IDE 
>> drive. I am manually swapping drives between the two OS' but that got old 
>> quick. What is the best way from here to setup a dualboot scenario using
the 
>> two separate drives. I do not wish to tamper with my XP system drive yet
and 
>> maybe never.
>> Take into account I am a Linux newbie.
>> TIA
> 
> Looks like another job for SUPERGRUB..
> 
> http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/?section=features

I'm wondering if Super Grub (or Grub for that matter) supports SATA
drives??? I have Ubuntu on my first SATA hard drive and Windows XP on my
second.  On my Grub boot list Windows is listed but will not boot.  I get
an Error 25. Doing an fdisk -l in the terminal shows the Windows drive as
/dev/sdb1 but I can't mount it from there (/dev/sdb1 not found) or boot
from it from Grub. If I plug the Windows drive into the SATA 0 port on the
motherboard Windows boots fine. Ubuntu boots fine if the drive it is on is
plugged into the SATA 0 port.

This is on a Dell Dimension 8400 which was the first of the Dell PCs to
use Serial ATA.  It has an Intel Serial ATA chipset.

Mike
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