Thanx for both answers .. 1: If I should install grub on my friends ext3 formated usb disk (with grub> setup from terminal) and remove it from his windows disk, then by choosing usb disk as first boot device in bios should work for his configuration and allow him to choose what to boot by switching of the usb drive .. am I thinking correct here ?
2: Still this does not help me as both my drives are ide on the same channel where one is in a removable thigy .. Making a small partition at the begining of my windows disk can be, as You point out, dangerous if that disk should fail .. One reason why i have ubuntu there is to have a backup in case the first drive fails .. and I still would prefer to have ubuntu on a internal drive for the speed .. usb is slow after all and reading virtual memory from a usb disk is not awesome ;) I'm pretty sure that i can't be the only person trying this kind of configuration .. there should be a better way ? SillyShitt On Jan 4, 1:59 pm, "Rob Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > I would think that if you had two drives with switching via BIOS, and it did > not see the second drive, that it might hang. The idea regarding the small > ext3 partition on the Windows drive for "/boot" seems to make more sense. > The downside is if that drive ever failed physically, you would not be able > to get into the Linux drive either. > > This is why I never like to build out dual boot, preferring to have > purpose-built machines. For the past three months anyway, I've had no reason > to use Windows. If a work situation forces me to use Windows, let them > provide a machine with it installed! > > Rob Smith > Posted via Xubuntu 8.10 running LXDE > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:31 AM, linuxonbute <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > It's not something i have thought about or tried but i wonder > > if you can shrink your windows partition slightly and make > > a small ext3 partition in the space you have freed up. > > Maybe you could re-install Linux and put /boot in the small > > partition on your disc with windows on it. > > If you set it to boot windows by default I think it might work. > > Another method, if you have the option in the bios to choose > > which device to boot from is to disconnect your windows drive > > then install Linux on the other drive. > > Then reconnect the windows drive. > > That way you choose to boot windows or Linux from the bios. > > Or maybe i am completely wrong here. > > No doubt someone will let us know --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
