Most (or all) BIOS offer a boot device selection on startup, refer to your BIOS manual. You can even make the snd hd the standard boot drive and make an entry for windows in grub, which will boot windows on the first hd. On Feb 6 2012 20:38, Joe Zien wrote:

Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:38:03 -0500 From: Joe Zien To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse] booting from 2nd drive

My computer is a ThinkCenter M51 tower. I have installed suse 12.1 on my 2nd hd which is a SATA drive, sda8. Grub is installed in the MBR on my 1st PATA drive, hda6.

The reason I want to boot from the 2nd drive is that I plan to purchase a new ThinkCenter M91 tower with 2 SATA hd's. The new tower comes with windows 7 and I don't want to mess up the new comp and install grub in the MBR. This may invalidate the warentee. I will install suse12.1 on the 2nd hd in the new tower, using the old tower as a test. What is the best way to make the 2nd drive boot the comp?

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