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On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, kevin wrote: > HI all, > > I am having trouble with a Foxconn board athlon 64 bios with Dual boot > Linux and Xp. > > I have a Sata disk with Xp on and an IDE with Fedora 11 on > > If I remove either of the Disks the system boots up fine. > With both disks in the system does > "Varifying DMI data"........ > > and just stops. Can you intercept the BIOS at (or before) that point? If so, then see if it has a clear function - forgotten what it's called, but some BIOSes have a clear facility to make it re-probe all hardware. > I have got a MBR on each disk (XP user wont use grub), and Linux is > selected from the BIOS boot menu. Seems tedious - to have to change BIOS every time you want to boot the other OS - Can't you get grub to auto-boot something, but if you push a key then give yo a menu so you can select linux? It's do-able in Lilo and how I treat my laptop (which auto-boots into XP for historical reasons, but I push shift and select what I want... one drive though) > Sometimes it works first boot, sometimes it takes three or four boots > to start up either OS > any Ideas? I'd get the 2-disk thing sorted first of all... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html