Debian and XP Dual Boot / Sep. HD's

[Viper16]

Okay I searched the forums looking, although being an American, I did not dig around too hard

Question:

I have XP on my "C:" HD and Debian on my "I:" drive. I want to duel boot and installed GRUB after the Debian installation. GRUB saw XP and I finished the installation. It reboots and XP starts up with no question of boot sequence. I check the drives and "I:" is no longer recognizable a drive letter but I can see it under Disk Management. It has the ext3 file system on it so I do not know if that could be a problem. I am lost at what to do now? I don't have anything GRUB related on my C: drive and I do not have a boot.ini file anywhere in my C:\

Cliff notes: I want to dual boot with dual hd's. XP on C: and Debian on I:...boot strapper 'Grub' isn't on c:\


Thanks in advance

viper

 

[Boomslang]

You need to install GRUB to the MBR of the disk that is labeled as your C: drive.

 

[Viper16]

does it matter that my XP drive is SATA and my Debian is one an IDE?

 

[criccio]

If they are on seperate drives, why does it matter? You pick what drive you want to boot in the BIOS before you even get to a bootloader.

 

[Viper16]

If they are on seperate drives, why does it matter? You pick what drive you want to boot in the BIOS before you even get to a bootloader.

hmm...when I checked out the bios it only gave me the option to boot from a hard drive...no options to choose which HD...I'll take a second look.

 

[criccio]

Yea when I bring up my boot menu during boot (F12), I can select individual HDD's to boot from.

 

[Viper16]

Yea when I bring up my boot menu during boot (F12), I can select individual HDD's to boot from.

I found it...thanks! I just wasn't in the right screen. Once I get Debian working I may try and tinker with getting it to bring up a screen for some dual-boot action.