G'mornin! I've already added the disk from blackie (he has the bad mboard). The F12 needed a reinstall, so that's going on now. It turns out that it isn't too bad (but it isn't too elegant either) specifying the disk in BIOS at boot. When I get everything working (should be today) I will get into a more elegant boot-specifying system. (/etc/grub.conf).
Why am I not surprised that you were the first geek responding to my SOS?
Will keep you posted, as always.
Thanks,
DH
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Harish Pillay harish.pillay@gmail.comwrote:
My main Linux box has suffered a motherboard failure. I am contemplating just moving the HDD to the XP machine and setting up dual boot. If this isn't satisfactory, then it's a new motherboard. I could boot by
selecting
the desired disk using BIOS. Is it possible have GRUB select the OS
(disk)
at boot-up and go from there?
Yes it is possible. What you may want to do is to make the drive you are putting into the machine the 1st drive that will boot from. Then you can edit the /etc/grub.conf file to add a few more entries to point to the other drive with XP.
Harish
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