Yes yes .. I understand that .. I can choose boot device with F8 and I have tried that too of course as well as disconnecting drives ..
I'm just so surprised that after installing Grub on the second drive and booting from it NOTHING happens .. no error .. nothing .. Anybody know what could be wrong ? Do I need to make the drive bootable somehow ? and if so How ? Thnx On 10 Jan, 10:15, linuxonbute <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure what you are doing here. > Once you have windows installed on your fixed disc and have also > installed linux on your removable disc then you can leave both drives > connected. At that point, when you boot up you choose from the bios > which disc you want to boot. I don't mean which order you want them to > boot from I mean the bit about pressing F11 or whichever key it is on > your PC. Is this an option on your PC? > > On 10 Jan, 05:49, sillyshitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
