[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? jozien -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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 <jozien@comcast.net> 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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On 02/07/2012 02:38 AM, Paul Neuwirth wrote:
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. /snip/
On an older system with two ide hard drives, I had XP on the second drive and Linux with grub on the first. The way I did it, I took out the second drive, and loaded Windows on the remaining drive. I then made that drive slave, put back the Linux drive as master, and ran the redo mbr command. Linux found the Windows drive (sdb) and added XP to the boot menu on sda. This was using grub, not grub 2. I'm not sure how this would work with SATA drives, since they don't have master and slave options, but somehow the system must differentiate between drives. (I'm going to have to find out--I want to do the same thing on a machine that I'm building now with a new mobo and at least one SATA drive.) --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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