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PaulHeywood
July 29th, 2010, 08:52 AM
Hi all,

I currently have an old dual boot (10.04 and XP) system with a couple of extra disks for data (Pics/Music) which is all being consolidated onto a new PC running 10.04.

What I would like is to still have the old dual boot IDE Hard Drive as a bootable disk (to boot into XP).

Is that possible ? I guess it would have to be configured as a slave with it's jumpers - would Grub still be able to boot it on the rare occasions I need to go into xp ?

Advice and tips gratefully received.

dino99
July 29th, 2010, 09:09 AM
yes of course, my system run multiple distro on 3 hdd (1 sata & 2 pata) with grub2 on each: 1 of the grub become the master to update menu