GRUB and two HDs

[Ted Roche]

Got too clever for myself again.

I have a ThinkPad with built-in 60 Gb drive with WinXP install, which I 
need for my day job. I bought a second hard drive, 80 Gb, with a caddy 
to fit it into the expansion slot, and installed Fedora Core 2 on it. 
When I boot the machine, I have a choice of WinXP or FC, which is what 
I'd like to have happen.

Unfortunately, this only works if both drives are in the system. If 
there's only the built-in drive, it boot to greet me with "GRUB " and a 
blinking cursor. I had expected that I still would have seen the menu, 
but only the Windows option would have worked. So, grub has only 
inserted a loader into the MBR, and still needs to read the menu from 
the second drive?

What's the easiest way to get it to boot to Windows if that's the only 
drive, and give me the option if both drives are inserted? Should I use 
parted to shrink and move the NTFS partition and create a boot 
partition on the built-in drive, or is there a better way?

Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com