Grub

[Tim]

Christopher Sammet:

>> 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?


oldman:

>     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).

I agree.  Alternatively, you can use a BIOS that lets you choose
alternative boot drives, but continually rewriting your BIOS settings
isn't a good idea (NVRAM only supports so-many rewrite cycles).

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