Linux question

I got 2 hard drives
One has windows, the other has Linux

when I was installing linux I set it up so that it asks me where to boot from and it does
but it does not load windows.
If i select load windows I get an error, if I select to load linux it works.
Then if I want to load windows I have to go to bios and I have to select my wondows HD to boot, which then just boots windows witout any prompt offcourse.

How can I fix this, also, how can I change the wait time to more then 3 seconds when the select screen to load windows or linux appers
thanks for any suggestions

 

In windows, Control pannel/System Properties/Advanced Tab/Startup and Recovery, Settings.
Linux, unfamiliar with.

I'm thinking with the OS's on different HDD you would always have to tell bios which HDD to boot from????
I run two Dual boot PC's but both my OS's are on the same HDD just different Partitions, With windows default time to choose boot OS is 30 seconds I set mine to 5 seconds, when loading multiple OS "Windows" always load the oldest OS first, I'm not sure when you would load Linux, if you were to run both on the same HDD.

 

no actually
I can set up my linux hard drive as the boot hard drive and then you can use linux to decide which OS to boot from.
I know you can do it, I just don't know how, and windows is no good since windows will not see Linux at all.

 

I don't think you can use the Windows bootloader to load up linux.

You'd need to reconfigure grub or lilo or whatever you're using on the Linux partition to boot correctly the Windows drive. I don't know how to do this exactly, but thats what you need to to.

 

yes thats it man
its grub
thank you
geez

 

help me out goldfish
couple of questions here.
Where is grub (appart from using th earch option and using it to run it)
and this is what I have what should I change to boot from sda1, it is a serial ATA hard drive, the one that has windows
To be more exact, my linux HD is PATA, my windows GD is SATA.

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdd1
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hdd
default=1
timeout=20
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1