On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Ozzie de Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > c) Last option I can think of -- and which I'm hoping will work -- is to > install my FC8 onto my FreeAgent Go external HDD so that I can dual-boot. My > main worry about trying this is if the MBR will be able to find the external > HDD to call GRUB and if my FC8 will run without a hitch on the external HDD.
I believe if your motherboard supports BIOS boot, then it will map the USB drive to a BIOS drive number, then run the GRUB boot sector, bypassing your hard drive altogether. I haven't done this, though. Another option, if you don't mind using Ubuntu and running NTFS-3G on your Vista drive: http://wubi-installer.org/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
