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Windows XP: xp compatible partition
xp compatible partition
by moises9485 - 3/20/07 6:24 PMUgh.. I installed gentoo on my primary hard drive and have boot, swap and root partitions on it and they take up the whole drive. I want to install windows on the secondary hard disk but it is saying it needs a compatible partition on the primary drive but it is already full! What should i do guys? Thanks.
hmmm
by moises9485 - 3/20/07 8:31 PM In reply to: xp compatible partition by moises9485Hmmm.... I just thought of something. I think i need to switch the drives master/slave. That is a pain though and I have so much stuff connected to the computer and i have to turn it on its side. What i did was disabled the primary drive with linux on it for now while i install xp. Its weird it still showed the drive in the installer but it didnt give me the error this time. i wanna enable it when im done and hopefully it works. only concern would be the MBR hopefully it works. any input?
Select primary boot drive in BIOS
by linkit - 3/20/07 8:58 PM In reply to: hmmm by moises9485Now you are likely to have one MBR on each drive. If that's the case, you can switch between OS'es by setting the desired hard drive as the primary boot drive in BIOS.
Of course, you could set the Linux drive as the primary boot drive, and then tell Grub or Lilo (whichever you use) to add Windows XP to its boot menu.
TIP: When we install XP first and Linux second, XP will automatically be configured to show as an option in the boot menu with the Linux distribution. No editing of Grub or Lilo files is necessary. Many newer Linux distribution versions are friendly like this.
yo
by moises9485 - 3/21/07 2:37 PM In reply to: Select primary boot drive in BIOS by linkithmm ive never seen that but then again i havent tried installing xp first recently. it seems i cant change the master/slave in bios grrr... stupid dell bios. thats annoying because if i need to change it i will have to open the pc and i have so much crap hooked up and crap on top of it and all round it and you have to turn it on the side to open it lol... i tried fixmbr and fixboot but then it ended up showing ntldr is missing so im gonna try to redo my grub and put it on the windows drive since that it primary and point an option to xp. that should work. lets see what happens...
master/slave is not set in BIOS
by linkit - 3/21/07 3:08 PM In reply to: yo by moises9485Master/slave designation is set by positioning a jumper cap on the back end of a hard drive and not in BIOS. You also need to place the master hard drive at the end of an IDE cable and the slave in the middle position. If you jumper both drives as Cable Select, then you connect both to a 80-wire(40pin) Ultra ATA cable.
The designating of which drive the startup routine first inspects for a MBR is set in BIOS. It's usually called something like the following: primary boot drive, first boot device, primary volume, etc.
What you should do is physically install the primary boot drive as a master (or CS) on a cable connected to the first IDE slot (IDE0).
found a sloution
by moises9485 - 3/21/07 6:23 PM In reply to: master/slave is not set in BIOS by linkitjust needed to tell grub to map the drives
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
and it worked fine. didnt need to switch the drives at all.
works perfect 
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