On 5/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/21/07, Michael Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) If you only want to try out Linux, you can completely remove the > Windows drive and replace that with your spare drive. Install Linux > and test/break that installation as you wish and your Windows disk > is safe sitting on the shelf. <etc.> Would something like the following work? Specify drive 1 (via the BIOS) as the boot drive, have the MBR created there and set up GRUB to boot Ubuntu off drive 1 and Windows off drive 0. If drive 0 is respecified as the boot drive, then it just boots Windows.
So you have Windows on HD0 and Linux on HD1, and you change the boot disk in the BIOS every time you want to run the other OS. I would find this annoying, but, yeah, it might work. The most likely reason I can think of for this not to work is that
Windows may not like being booted this way.
As long as you don't move the HD with the original Windows installation, it shouldn't complain. Any chance of success? You have good backups, right? ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
