Grub

[oldman]

Christopher Sammet wrote:

>Hi everyone I'm somewhat new to linux but I know my way around the OS.
> When using Grub as the bootloader and it is installed the on the
>primary harddrive and linux is on a external harddrive and the OS on
>the primary drive is the defualt OS will Grub return an error if the
>external harddrive is unplug?
>
>Thanks,
>Christopher
>
>  
>
    I believe you need at least the /boot directory on the internal 
drive as the grub.conf file is there (this is the file that tells grub 
about all of the installed OSs).  This partition is very small 
(typically 100Mb but could be 50Mb without problems.

Scott