Hi
I have 2 HDDs - Windows 7 on one and Linux on the other. Initially I installed Linux Mint 13 on the second drive (Win 7 disk was disconnected from power and data during this), then installed EasyBCD on Win7. No problems - dual boot worked fine. Last week I decided I would prefer a rolling Linux distro so I installed PCLinuxOS on the second drive in place of Mint13. Then the problem started. No matter what settings I use the dual boot fails. I have read the guides and suggestions within these pages but I still have no success.
To check my own sanity I installed Sabayon instead of PCLinuxOS and that is fine - dual boot without any problem. I do note Sabayon uses Grub2 (as did Mint 13) whilst PCLinuxOS uses Grub (legacy). I can only assume this is the area where the difficulty lies - but I cannot resolve it. I could boot into PCLinuxOS by selecting the "Boot Setup" option when starting the computer and then choosing the second HDD, but not using dual-boot.
Can anyone help?
Regards
JJD
I have 2 HDDs - Windows 7 on one and Linux on the other. Initially I installed Linux Mint 13 on the second drive (Win 7 disk was disconnected from power and data during this), then installed EasyBCD on Win7. No problems - dual boot worked fine. Last week I decided I would prefer a rolling Linux distro so I installed PCLinuxOS on the second drive in place of Mint13. Then the problem started. No matter what settings I use the dual boot fails. I have read the guides and suggestions within these pages but I still have no success.
To check my own sanity I installed Sabayon instead of PCLinuxOS and that is fine - dual boot without any problem. I do note Sabayon uses Grub2 (as did Mint 13) whilst PCLinuxOS uses Grub (legacy). I can only assume this is the area where the difficulty lies - but I cannot resolve it. I could boot into PCLinuxOS by selecting the "Boot Setup" option when starting the computer and then choosing the second HDD, but not using dual-boot.
Can anyone help?
Regards
JJD