[K12OSN] Dual boot using separate hard drives

[John P. Conlon]

My concern is that I need Grub on the C: or first booting hard drive 
which will be where windows will be at.  I don't really want to mess 
with windows loaders.

Petre Scheie wrote:

> I don't think you need to 'leave' any space for the boot loader; when 
> a boot loader is installed it goes at the beginning of the disk 
> independent of the partitioning and of the OS, IIRC.  Most distros, 
> Fedora/RH included, handle the config of the boot loader for you 
> automatically.  Note that you can also use the Windows boot loader to 
> load Linux.  You can find a bunch of documents about doing this on the 
> web; google for, say, 'windows dual-boot'.
>
> Petre
>
> John P. Conlon wrote:
>
>> I have the drives, I do not have the money to buy a set of caddies. 
>> Besides that woild not help where my wife is concerned because 
>> eventually I would forget to switch drives.  I do need the file 
>> swapping ability also.
>>
>> Gavin Chester wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 10:06 -0600, John P. Conlon wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> To ensure marital harmony and bliss I am about to put together a 
>>>> dual boot machine using 2 hard drives.  The plan is for one drive 
>>>> to be Windows XP and the other to be K12LTSP as a stand alone.  
>>>> When I fdisk the windows drive do I need to leave a small portion 
>>>> of the drive for Grub to be installed in?  If I do need to leave 
>>>> some how big does the piece need to be?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Pat
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>> This may not be the answer you're looking for, but FWIW I find great
>>> service in putting each drive in a harddrive caddy.  You don't specify
>>> your drive type in your post, but these caddies have been available for
>>> SCSI and IDE for some time, and are now available for SATA.  Everything
>>> is simplified to deciding which drive - Windows or Linux - to pop in at
>>> the time of bootup to totally change the personality of the PC.  This
>>> assumes you go through a complete install of each system on each
>>> drive. 
>>> The only drawback of this is that you can't exchange files between
>>> systems on each drive.  If you need that then you do need to have both
>>> drives active as master and slave (assuming IDE or SATA) at once.  In
>>> that case simply ensure you have Windows installed on your primary 
>>> drive
>>> and then start your Linux install and the installation will take 
>>> care of
>>> creating the appropriate boot partition for grub or lilo without
>>> touching your Windows setup.  HTH. 
>>> I hope that's up to date with current procedures - I haven't had to do
>>> what you're attempting for a few years ;-)
>>>  
>>>
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