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Michael has put up a post on how to dual boot your 901 or 1000, so as a  form of quality control I followed his instructions. He has the 901 and I have the 1000, which has a larger hard drive, so I wanted to try something different. I wanted to put the Xandros system partition on the 8GB SSD which is /dev/sda, and a 20GB~ish Xandros user partition on the 30GB SSD as /dev/sdb1 and an 8GB WinXP partition on the end of the drive as /dev/sdb2. Well it didn’t work. I used Michael’s instructions and successfully backed up my WinXP partition, but no matter what I tried, I could not get it to boot from /dev/sdb2. I tried rebuilding and reinstalling GRUB. I tried Super Grub Disk. I tried installing Ubuntu, which allowed me to see the Windows partition, but it still would not boot. I might add that Xandros would boot the whole time. So my solution: I moved Windows to the second hard drive with its Master Boot Record and expanded it to take up the entire drive, so when it boots I hit escape and boot from the second drive. It works, WOOT. I then reinstalled Xandros using the disk that came with my computer. The only thing you have to do to keep it from overwriting the second drive is when it says /dev/sdb1 is currently formatted …blah..blah JUST SAY NO. It will finish setting up Xandros just on the first drive and you are good to go. If anyone knows how I can get XP to boot from /dev/sdb2 I would be very happy to hear from you.

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