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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
