sorry the windows bluescreen was because of the cpu fan being blocked by a wire .. big mistake ..
but still .. why doesn't grub start on the second disk ? I don't get it sillyshitt skrev: > Hmm .. It all sounded so simple =) > > First when I tried to boot from the second harddrive the one with > ubuntu (after disconnecting the first harddrive) the bios startup > thingy says : Searching for boot record IDE-0..OK > And then NOTHING happens .. I was a bit surprised there .. expected > atleast an Grub eror or something .. so I booted up with the ubuntu CD > and did the "grub> setup (hd0)" thing and still nothing happens .. I > edited the menu.lst and still nothing .. Eny ide what could be wrong ? > I do belive that there is a ubuntu 5.10 on that drive and it should > atleast start booting .. The instalation thing for ubuntu 8.10 refuses > to overwrite the old version so that sucks to .. > > And now since I had windows put its virtual memory on another > partition on that second disk now windows bluescreens everytime I try > to start it .. and that sucks even more .. > > suggestions ? =) > > On Jan 5, 3:51 pm, linuxonbute <[email protected]> wrote: > > When you boot up recent PC's you have an option to press a key - on > > mine it's F11 > > Then you can tell it to boot that device. > > > > As far as I know this treats the device you choose independently > > so if you have installed Linux on your removable disc>>>> with your windows > > disc disconnected <<<< > > > > It should boot without complaint. > > > > Also If you have windows on your fixed disc>>>> and when you installed it > > the removable was NOT formatted or installed or anything<<<<< > > > > then if you choose to boot from it then it should be fine. > > > > This is NOT the same as changing the boot order from the bios screen. > > Just choosing the order would simply try to boot from the first device > > then, > > if that failed it would go to the second and so on. > > > > On 4 Jan, 14:33, sillyshitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > What do U mean by BIOS SWITCHING ? Just deactivating one drive or the > > > other ? > > > > > And is it not possible to install GRUB on a NTFS partition entirely? > > > that would solve my problem i think .. then grub would load from the > > > first disk wich is the windows disk and not look for the other drive > > > at all .. Thus making it removable again .. > > > > > On Jan 4, 3:05 pm, linuxonbute <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On 4 Jan, 12:59, "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. > > > > > > Not sure about that. > > > > If the 1st drive has windows on it would it be bothered if the other > > > > drive > > > > was there after all it is Linux on it and windows knows nothing about > > > > it? > > > > If you booted Linux on the removable drive then the other drive would > > > > be there > > > > and Linux would be happy with it. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
