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master-inferno

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From: France

Registered: 2007-07-06

Posts: 23

[SOLVED] Dual booting with 2 hard drives

Hi there Arch Community !

I've got 2 hard drives in my computer.
I first installed Windows 7 on HDD1 (and it put the Windows Boot Partition on HDD2 )
I then installed archlinux on HDD2.

The partitioning looks like this:

/dev/sda1 Windows 7 partition

/dev/sdb1 Windows 7 loader (100MB)
/dev/sdb2 / partition 
/dev/sdb3 swap partition
/dev/sdb4 /home partition

I don't know on which partition I have to set the boot flag (*) with fdisk in order to boot properly on both OS, and what to put in my syslinux.cfg which at the moment looks like this:

LABEL arch
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
    APPEND root=/dev/sdb2 rw
    INITRD ../initramfs-linux.img

LABEL windows
        MENU LABEL Windows 7
        COM32 chain.c32
        APPEND hd1 1

Is that correct ?

Last edited by master-inferno (2017-02-16 20:20:12)

master-inferno

Member

From: France

Registered: 2007-07-06

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] Dual booting with 2 hard drives

Solved by installing grub instead of syslinux.

Last edited by master-inferno (2017-02-16 20:19:49)