Dual boot fedora xp with two separate disks

[herzel]

Hi all
I have disk 80 GB sata with windows xp installed. Second ide disk I installed fedora core 4. When I boot from the windows disk (enabled in bios as first disk) everything is ok, when I boot from the fedora disk (enabled in bios as first disk) everything is ok. The problem is when I try to make dual boot configuration.
I googled and find out some articles about dual booting xp and linux but almost all the articles spooked about dual booting with only one disk first I red in one article that I should not install grub in mbr so I reinstalled fedora and installed grub at the first disk sector but when I enabled the disk at the bios it did not boot till I did "grub-install /dev/hdc" and only then I could boot fedora. To do dual boot I did "dd if=/dev/hdc of=/mnt/linux.bin bs=512 count=1" and when I do "file linux.bin" I get "linux.bin: x86 boot sector" I transferred the linux.bin file to the ntfs partition and putted the following line in boot.ini "c:\linux.bin="linux""now when I am trying to boot fedora from the windows disk (I mean with dual boot). I get "grub loading … stage 1.5… grub loading ,please wait Error 22" (everything is ok when I do boot from the fedora disk enabled in bios as first disk)
I googled for hours can not find where is my mistake does anyone have any idea or had the experience dual booting with two disks


Thanks in advance

 

[franklin97355]

The way I did it was to set the xp drive as the second drive (slave) on the primary controller and the new drive as the primary (master) When I installed linux (SuSe 10) it set up grub and I don't have to set anything in BIOS.

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[herzel]

Franklin97355 thanks for your reply
Well I understand that you had no problem with dual booting when you boot from linux well I did try also this and I had no success booting to windows (I mean the master drive is linux the secondary is windows and when I try to boot windows from grub)

Does this config shell work smoothly so why do I have so many problems???