2 Hard Drives Help.

[ivtec]

Hi guys; Hope you guys had a good Happy New Year, i installed a second hard drive in my Dell Dem 4500 P4 ,i have one hard drive with Xubuntu 12.04 and in the other i installed Win Xp the tape cable has 2 connections, i connected the end connection to hdd with xubuntu with jumper on master and and the meddle connection to the HDD with Winxp slave with no jumper,now this way set up it boots strait to xubuntu,
now i want it to boot either to xubuntu or Win xp how i do that,
i tried to follow per instructions from the link bellow but i'm confused because is win and Linux and on the instructions they have all win ops, so any help would be appreciated the more i reed the less i understand ,please shed some light light



http://www.easeus.com/resource/insta...hard-drive.htm

[ivtec]

Re: 2 Hard Drives Help.

Hi guys; Hope you guys had a good Happy New Year, i installed a second hard drive in my Dell Dem 4500 P4 ,i have one hard drive with Xubuntu 12.04 and in the other i installed Win Xp the tape cable has 2 connections, i connected the end connection to hdd with xubuntu with jumper on master and and the meddle connection to the HDD with Winxp slave with no jumper,now this way set up it boots strait to xubuntu,
now i want it to boot either to xubuntu or Win xp how i do that,
i tried to follow per instructions from the link bellow but i'm confused because is win and Linux and on the instructions they have all win ops, so any help would be appreciated the more i reed the less i understand ,please shed some light light



http://www.easeus.com/resource/insta...hard-drive.htm

Ok guys: update on 2 HHD ,i just solved by going in Xubunbtu Terminal and did: sudo apt-get update,then sudo update-grub,now it gives me option to boot Ubuntu or WinXp.

[selldoor]

Re: 2 Hard Drives Help.

This might help
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/07/23...2-hard-drives/

How did you install ubunto - may have to reinstall it?


I think overall the idea is to have it set to boot to ubunto drive in the bios and
then there is something called GRUB?? which then finds window and gives you an option to boot to either. Alternative is to write something into windows which
asks if you want to use windows or ubunto. I have not done this though many years ago we had a PC that we could boot to Win2000 or Win XP and a screen came up with a choice (a bit like F8 choices)

EDIT
Too Little Too Late

[ivtec]

Re: 2 Hard Drives Help.

This might help
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/07/23...2-hard-drives/

How did you install ubunto - may have to reinstall it?


I think overall the idea is to have it set to boot to ubunto drive in the bios and
then there is something called GRUB?? which then finds window and gives you an option to boot to either. Alternative is to write something into windows which
asks if you want to use windows or ubunto. I have not done this though many years ago we had a PC that we could boot to Win2000 or Win XP and a screen came up with a choice (a bit like F8 choices)

EDIT
Too Little Too Late

I Had Xubuntu 14.04 installed long time ago and just installed Win Xp on another HDD,and made the right connection, i was surprised that i only had to do Xubuntu Update and grub update and so far no problems,when i boot it goes to a screan that gives me the choice of Xubuntu or WinXp ,if i don't choose it boots strait to xubuntu after a few seconds,it's the same as you install in the same HDD windows first then you install xubuntu last and linux grub will make it automatically, which is pretty cool you don't have to do a thing.

[cheapie]

Re: 2 Hard Drives Help.

OK, so if I understand correctly, you're using IDE hard drives, had Xubuntu on what used to be the only drive, then put a hard drive with Windows in the slave spot. Then, it kept booting from the master (Xubuntu) drive, so you did update-grub to make it find Windows?

In any case, at least you got it working.

[ivtec]

Re: 2 Hard Drives Help.

OK, so if I understand correctly, you're using IDE hard drives, had Xubuntu on what used to be the only drive, then put a hard drive with Windows in the slave spot. Then, it kept booting from the master (Xubuntu) drive, so you did update-grub to make it find Windows?

In any case, at least you got it working.

yes,you got it right,


http://www.easeus.com/resource/insta...hard-drive.htm

i also was surprised that was so easy,just by doing in the terminal
sudo update-grube