> > >>I have one SATA drive with windows xp installed. >>I added a second SATA drive to install CentOS on. During the install, >>both drives are listed. If I use the auto-partition feature and deselect >>the drive with windows on it, only selecting the new drive, I get an >>error message that it could not create the partitions. The same thing >>happened a few months ago and I manually setup to partitions. This >>worked, but windows wouldn't boot any longer. The last time I tried this >>was with CentOS 4.0. I'm reluctant to mess up the windows install and >>want to dual boot. Searching the web brought up alot of info, but I'm >>still confused as to whether this should work. >>I'm using an Abit AN8 motherboard with no ATA hard drives, but an ATA >>cdrom drive (used for the install). >>Any feedback is greatly appreciated. >>Thanks. >>mark >>markworkman at woh.rr.com >>ps. I do have a 3ware SATA card I could put in if that would make things >>easier. >> >> > >Your computer has one Master Boot Record on the boot drive (that is the >Primary Master drive, the one that you currently have Windows on). > >You will need to manually setup the partitions on the second drive. > >When you get finished, CentOS will be installed on the second drive ... >but the boot loader (grub) will be installed on the MBR of the boot >drive. > >As part of the setup, windows should be listed as a boot option ... if >you use the arrow key on the Grub selection screen: > >http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=272&slide=20 > >If windows is not listed, login to centos and edit >your /boot/grub/grub.conf file and add this entry to the bottom of the >file: > >#---start below here---# >title Windows > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 >#---stop above here---# > >If you add those 3 lines, you should see "Windows" as an option on the >grub selection screen. > >If you want to see all the options every boot up, in that same file >(/etc/grub/grub.conf), you should remark out (put a # in front of) the >line that says: > >hiddenmenu > >so it looks like this: > >#hiddenmenu > Thanks for your help. This worked as you said that it would.