On Thursday 15 December 2005 11:19, Bruce Samhaber wrote:
Hi,
I would like to setup my GRUB to boot from a second harddrive. Is this possible? Can it be done from YAST? How?
Since I am doing this on a laptop is it possible for the second harddrive to be on a USB port? I already have the disk drive, case and USB cable.
Thanks,
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I don't have all the answers for you, but grub, at least, has to be on the master drive, a bootable floppy, or a bootable cd/dvd. You have more flexibility about where the second stage image is, and where the root filesystem is located. As for having the root filesystem on a USB drive, that might be possible, but I would think not until after the kernel is loaded so the system has access to USB devices. HTH. Mark