[NTLUG:Discuss] adding 2nd hard disk

[Christopher Thompson]

> If the /boot partition on the 500GB drive is marked bootable then
> it should boot if it is the master.  Do some checking to make sure
> you really have your master/slave right and that the boot
> partition is marked as bootable.
> 
> Depending on how you did things, it's possible that a Windows
> boot record was written to your MBR on the 500G drive.
> 
> You can boot into rescue mode from a rescue Linux CD and chroot
> to your real root, mount /proc and /sys and do a grub-install.
> 
> But there are lots of variables, and unless you know exactly
> what you're dealing with you might not want to take a random
> stab at solving the problem just quite yet.  So poke around
> a bit and see what you can determine first.
> 

Thanks Chris, 

but i know that windows didn't write anything to my MBR on the 500 gig
disk as the 20 was already loaded with windows when it was installed. so
the windows installer never did see the 500 gig disk.

I'll do some more looking before i go any deeper, windows was for the
once in a while time when i need to access a device i have that i have
yet to get working in linux, and for a future college class (i am a CIS
major) where i will need access to a working windows system for the
class.

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Christopher D. Thompson
kf4drr at windstream.net