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Question about dual-booting and MBR

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J3anyus

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Alright, here's the basic setup and idea of what I want to do. I have two 60GB hard drives on an onboard HPT370A RAID controller, and they're running RAID 0 (striping). They're partitioned as one big partition, and that has Win2K running. Everything's fine, but I want to add a 7GB hard drive to my Primary IDE, and install Redhat on it. I know that installing Redhat on that second drive will mess with the MBR and whatnot, and I only plan to have Redhat running temporarily. So, basically, I want to be able to add a drive, install Redhat, and then later remove the drive that has Redhat on it, and go back to just a normal single-OS (Win2K) system. Adding the drive and setting up Redhat is simple, but removing the drive and going back to just Win2K is what I don't know anything about...can anyone clue me in as to what I'll need to do when I remove Redhat? Some sort of MBR recovery, I would imagine, but I really don't know...

Thanks.

Jacob
 
Using the Win2K recovery console after booting with the Win2k cd will allow you to use FixMBR. Please read the instructions carefully.

DC
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
RedHat won't touch the MBR unless you tell it to.
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Uhh...then how will it boot? I would imagine that it would require me to rewrite my boot.ini, which actually sounds like a much easier way of taking care of this situation, although I have no idea what I'd have to write in there.
 
You can have it setup a bootloader in the MBR and boot Win2K from that or you can have it setup it's bootloader in it's root partition and use NT's bootloader. I think there's even an option to not put a bootloader anywhere, which means you'd need a boot disk to boot it.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
I think there's even an option to not put a bootloader anywhere, which means you'd need a boot disk to boot it.
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That's right, I had completely forgotten about that. I think that's what I'll do, since I don't plan to boot into Redhat very often at all.
 
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