2008-09-21, 07:23 PM
Apologies in advance for the misuse of language - I'm new to Linux (hence Mint!), but not computer shy. My problem is trying to make my machine dual boot.
I have taken the hard disc out of a linux box and put it into my windows box, (intel core2 at heart), so the windows drive is disk 0, and linux is on drive 1.
I can boot into linux using SuperGrubDisk, (or swapping discs round in bios settings), but can't get it to work with the windows boot loader. I think the problem is that linux (and grub) was installed when disk was hd0, and even when I load linux is convinced it is loaded in hd0, [/dev/hda2]. However windows report that the linux partition is hd1, (and supergrub reports it as hd1; /dev/hdb2).
I followed instructions from http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/gru...HOWTO.html (but already had grub installed) to make copy of boot section of linux disk on windows drive and point the windows bootloader at it, but no joy! Any ideas how to resolve this issue so that I can use the windows boot loader to load either XP or Mint?
(Sadly, not just me that uses the computer so need windows to be the default OS)
Any help much appreciated,
Dzinja