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gocards300
March 14th, 2009, 04:01 PM
I have a dell e310 with XP and just added another hard drive to it with ubuntu 8.10 installed on it. Is there anyway I can boot off both hard drive without going into the bios and disabling the main drive?

ugm6hr
March 14th, 2009, 04:54 PM
Yes.

Edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst to fing the Windows HD.

I'm sure there are a few similar posts in here with examples - else a grub expert will probably be able to tell you exactly what needs to be added.

It might help if you post the output of:
sudo fdisk -l